Karim Benzema “in connection with the Muslim Brotherhood”? This is what French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday October 17, 2023 on CNews.
Since then, the entourage of the Minister of the Interior has been trying to clarify this accusation with several media, evoking “a slow drift of positions” of the former player of Olympique Lyonnais and Real Madrid “towards a hard, rigorous Islam, characteristic of the frequency ideology”.
Through the voice of his lawyer, Me Hugues Vigier, Karim Benzema responded to Mr. Darmanin, refuting any link with the Muslim Brotherhood. “This is false!” Karim Benzema has never had the slightest relationship with this organization. He also chose to live in Arabia who decreed the said terrorist organization, which France has never done, “said Me Vigier on Wednesday in the columns of the Parisian, adding that a reflection is underway about possible” prosecution against the Minister “for public insult (…) as he confirmed this Thursday, October 19, 2023.
Leader of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended the former international by publishing today a message of support for Karim Benzema after the criticisms suffered by the attacker about his positions on the conflict between Israel and Palestine and especially after the accusations of “notorious links” with the Muslim Brotherhood launched by Gérald Darmanin.
“Hello Mr. Benzema. I don’t know you and I don’t know anything about football. But the government and his friends have chosen to demonize you. They call you “paper French”. With such enemies who speak with such words you must be a remarkable person, without ethnic or religious hatred. Grandson of people also treated with “paper French” by the Pétainists who have retired their papers from those who have been French for less than ten years, I know that France belongs to all those who choose it. Those who insult us do not deserve it ”.
Hello Mr. Benzema. I don’t know you and I don’t know anything about football. But the government and his friends have chosen to demonize you. They call you “paper French”. With such enemies who speak with such words you must be a remarkable person,…
-Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@jlmelenchon) October 19, 2023
