UEFA Champions League - Santiago Bernabeu stadium, Madrid, Spain - 7/12/16 Real Madrid's Karim Benzema scores during the match. REUTERS/Juan Medina
PARIS (Reuters) - A French court rejected Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema's request to stop a trial over his alleged attempt to blackmail fellow French soccer international Mathieu Valbuena using a sex video, a judicial source said on Friday.
The affair involved phone-recorded sex footage that could prove embarrassing for Valbuena, according to sources close to the inquiry. Benzema's name came up during phone taps in relation to the inquiry opened last July, police sources say.
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