Karim Benzema According to his lawyer Hugues Vigier, he complained that for reasons of “bad politics” and electoralism, they dragged him into a controversy that affects his children because they see that “They accuse his father of being a terrorist”and denies accusations that he is a fundamentalist Muslim.
In a Friday interview with a radio station Information about FranceVigier is accused of what he called “hateful blackmail” by the interior minister. Gerald Darmaninwho called on the footballer to refute all his claims about his closeness to the Muslim Brotherhood and his “selective outrage.”
Gerald Darmanin.
Darmanin noted this Thursday that if Benzema wants to “demonstrate his integrity”, he will have to publish a message on his social networks condemning the jihadist attack on the 13th in Arra, in which a teacher was killed in his high school, in the same way. how he demonstrated his solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip as part of the Israeli offensive.
The athlete’s lawyer responded that he believed “under these circumstances he would have little desire to do so” and that his client was not someone who had to demonstrate his good intentions, but rather a minister who would have to “have the political courage” to admit that what he said about him was “a lie.”
For Vigier, Darmanin’s words, in which he pointed out his supposed closeness to the Muslim Brotherhood, were “devastating” and had a “dramatic” effect on Benzema.
He said that he talked to him last night and the football player told him:
I have heard so many things about myself and so many unfair things. But now my children, my children are suffering because they accuse their father of being a terrorist.
The lawyer, who was convinced that the dispute, launched “out of pure electoralism”, would only fuel Islamophobia and the far right, said the footballer’s religious practice was “not radical at all and just like that”.
Moreover, he noted that when he told him by telephone about the reproaches that the Minister of the Interior had made to him in connection with his proximity to this fundamentalist group, he told him:
I don’t know what the Muslim Brotherhood is. I don’t know what this organization is, what exactly its religious or political message is.
The footballer, the lawyer added, had indeed heard the name of this group, “but not knowing what corresponded to this term.”
The minister spoke of the player’s “notorious ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood but did not provide concrete evidence, saying it was a tool to promote a strict vision of the Muslim religion and that the organization was using the fame of certain individuals to popularize that vision.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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