French striker Benzema denies kidnapping allegations

Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has expressed disappointment over kidnapping allegations.

Leo D’Souza made a Police complaint on October 13th that Benzema and his entourage tried to detain him in a Paris shisha bar after the PSG 6-0 over Lyon.  L’Equipe reported that a childhood friend of Benzema’s attempted to forcefully detain D’Souza. But the striker, through his lawyer, Sylvain Cormier has strongly denied the allegations.

“I discovered that it was not my client who was being targeted, but an acquaintance he has in common with Mr D’Souza. Mr D’Souza is trying to hide a little swindle by making a police complaint and damaging Mr Benzema. They have not worked together. Perhaps Mr D’Souza had dreams that were bigger than his abilities and he’s letting off steam with this lie-filled and abusive complaint.” The lawyer told RMC.

“My client is being hammered in a gratuitous and cynical way. We have made a police complaint about abuse of trust and [on Friday] we’ll make a police complaint about defamation. I have spoken to my client, he is totally annoyed that they are wanting to hurt him through this abusive complaint. Karim has nothing to do with this matter. When he had this problem with Mr D’Souza, we spoke about it. This fantasy in which there is supposed to have been a kidnapping, it’s grotesque,” Cormier said.

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