Karim Djaziri, Karim Benzema's agent, was invited at Luis Attaque RMC radio show on thursday. If he regrets the extent that the case of the sextape blackmail reached, he understands that Noël Le Graët decided to sanctionat least temporarily the striker of Real Madrid. And regrets that he is unloved in France.
Karim Djaziri, do you think Karim Benzema is a victim of relentlessness?
There is a form of hate against Karim according to his origins. I heard that he doesn't like France. You don't play 81 times for France national team if you don't like France. Effectively, he had to make a choice and it's always difficult. He had the choice with Algeria, the country of his parents, or the country where is born, France. He decided to play for France, he did it with pride 81 times. I can't accept that we question it. He is beautiful, young, footballer, rich, with North African origin and muslim. It crystallizes many things. There will be people who don't like him who are leftist (political side), rightist, old, young, because he has many things which attracts hate.
Is his attitude with the France national team good?
Karim is not a boy who will retrieve balls, run everywhere. He is not a n°6. You must not judge a player for his attitude. What we ask him, it's to be active and help the team to win.
Have you been on the phone after the announcement of Noël Le Graët?
No, I didn't have him. But I know in which state he is right now. He is serene, he knows he has done nothing. He wanted to help a friend. This friend will be aware of it and knows it pretty well also. I sincerely think that there are more important things than this non-case. It must stop! If you want, we can reestablish the death penalty for Karim.
Do you understand the decision of the FrenchFootballFederation?
Of course I understand it. The président has to take a decision. He can not stay passive. This decision is not unfair. He says that he is not Il dit qu’il n’est pas selectable the time it will take to find new elements for the case. There is still something that I question, is that Karim was auditioned before the victim, Mathieu Valbuena, was auditioned. Mathieu was aware of the case by the news, while there was the secret of instruction, before being presented in front of the judge. Normally, we listen first the victim before the questioning and the reverse was done. There is an amalgam made on two distinct things. One is criminally punishable, it's the discussion that he had with him in the bedroom, who only both of them are witness. It's why lawyers now ask for a confrontation. If Karim tried to make him pay, yes he must be punished. Else, his indictment must be stopped and the case must be terminated. Karim wanted to help Mathieu, who is a friend. Maybe not the best way, he maybe badly perceived the message, while presenting him a friend who lives in Lyon.
Do you think Karim Benzema is a victim of the friendships that he kept since his childhood?
Not at all. I'm extremely proud that he kept and didn't turn his back on his friends, despite the different paths they have taken. It's a pride to see this boy who stayed the same since the day I met him, when he was 15 years old. Today, he is a world star, he has 30 millions worldwide fans, unfortunately only 10% of which are French.
The wiretaps are not in favor of Karim Benzema, who insults Mathieu Valbuena...
Karim recognized it himself and he apologized. He didn't do it earlier because he was hold by the justice control to not meet Mathieu Valbuena. He wanted to see him and say: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have talk like that". And it was set. After, Mathieu does what he wants. We can not force him to do something, he can blame Karim for the words. There are two completely different things: the wiretaps and the discussion they had together. You can not arrest someone because he has spoken badly of someone else on the phone with a friend. It doesn't exist in France. On the other hand, you can send someone to prison if he wanted to blackmail him. But to date, Mathieu Valbuena didn't say clearly: "Karim asked me to pay, he incited me to pay". I hope that Mathieu will rest, think clearly and do the difference between the discussion he had with Karim in his bedroom, between friends, and what the news reports, via someone else, put in front of his eyes.
Do you understand the bad image Karim Benzema returns to the general public?
I can understand it and I understand it when I see the election of Sunday. We do not forgive him anything. There are big champions that never sang la Marseillaise while they had the medals and the flowers in their hand. All the French champions didn't sing la Marseillaise. Tony Parker don't sing la Marseillaise, you never mention it!
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