Benzema, 34, received a one-year suspended sentence last November. In addition, the former Lyon player had to pay Valbuen compensation of 80,000 euros (about 1.97 million crowns) and a fine of 75,000 euros.
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Benzema, who dropped out of the national team for six years due to the 2015 affair, originally appealed, but less than a month before the hearing, he changed his mind. According to lawyer Hugues Vigier, he is already tired of the whole process.
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“He doesn’t want to talk about it anymore, he’s had enough,” he told AP Vigier. “But he still thinks he didn’t blackmail anyone. He was convicted by law, but the truth of justice is something other than reality,” he added.
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