2023-10-18 19:03:09
Karim Benzema prepares his counterattack. Accused Monday evening by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin of being “in notorious links with the Muslim Brotherhood” on the set of the CNews channel, the former center forward of Real Madrid and 2022 Golden Ball is considering file a complaint against the tenant of Place Beauvau. And refutes, through his lawyer Mr. Hugues Vigier, any link with the Islamist organization.
“This is false!” Karim Benzema has never had the slightest relationship with this organization, explains the advice of the man who joined the Saudi club Al-Ittihad in June. He also chose to live in Arabia which declared the said terrorist organization, which France has never done. »
“We are considering proceedings against this minister in application, for example, of the law on the manipulation of information dear to our government… and defamation or even public insult, because this non-existent link with the Muslim Brotherhood, which he says is nevertheless notorious, is obviously presented as derogatory. It is not acceptable for those who govern to believe they are authorized to do anything out of pure opportunism. »
A complaint in sight against MEP Nadine Morano
Furthermore, the French international with 97 caps with the Blues will file a complaint for defamation against European MP Nadine Morano (Les Républicains) and advertising executive Franck Tapiro. The first estimated in an interview with Europe 1 that the player was “an element of Hamas propaganda”, while the second estimated that Benzema was “a collaborator”, “accomplice of terrorism”.
All our prayers for the inhabitants of Gaza who are once again victims of these unjust bombings which spare no women or children.
— Karim Benzema (@Benzema) October 15, 2023
Karim Benzema’s fault in their eyes? Having published a post on Hamas against Israelis on October 7.
“Praying on October 15 for civilian populations under bombs which spare neither women nor children obviously constitutes neither propaganda for Hamas, nor complicity in terrorism nor acts of collaboration,” believes his lawyer. It is, I want to believe, natural compassion in the face of what many today describe as war crimes being committed in Gaza but which takes nothing away from the horror of the terrorist acts of October 7 which are not don’t discuss. By using these scandalous terms against him, Nadine Morano and Franck Tapiro have caused a profound and unbearable attack on his honor. »
The player also plans to file a complaint against Senator LR Valérie Boyer. The latter asked, if his links with the Muslim Brotherhood were proven, that he be stripped of his 2022 Ballon d’Or as well as his French nationality. “Such an impossible measure against a French native with French parents would only remind Europe of Nazi Germany,” protests Mr. Hugues Vigier.
If, as the Minister of the Interior asserts, Karim Benzema is “linked to the Muslim Brotherhood”, I ask for sanctions, in particular his deprivation of nationality. It is urgent to act against those who constantly threaten our country. pic.twitter.com/rFMgTDI3qm
— Valérie Boyer (@valerieboyer13) October 18, 2023
Contacted by Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France to detail Gérald Darmanin’s accusation against Karim Benzema, the minister’s office lists his refusal to sing La Marseillaise when he wore the French team jersey, as well as a photo taken with the imam of Meaux Nourdine Mamoune, whose home was searched in 2020 as part of the investigation into the assassination of Samuel Paty.
Other grievances: his proselytizing on social networks, as well as a like on Instagram of a post by MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagedov attacking “the enemies of Islam”. “We are seeing a slow drift in Karim Benzema’s positions towards a hard, rigorous Islam, characteristic of the Brotherhood ideology consisting of disseminating Islamic norms in different spaces of society, particularly in sport,” maintains the entourage of the minister.
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