Right before the 2010 World Cup, an unbelievable scandal broke out, stunning the French national team: many of the best Les Bleus players were regulars at a nightclub in Paris, and they were accused of sleeping with an underage call girl. year. At first, many people thought it was just a sensational story related to the World Cup.

Then, the police got involved. During the raid in April 2010, police recorded the presence of 18 prostitutes, accounting for more than half of the female “customers”. While interviewing the prostitutes, police returned to several customers and realized that one of them was a minor at the time of the event.

Zahia Dehar, a young prostitute living around Zaman Café, told police that she had sex with several football players, notably Franck Ribery in 2009 and Karim Benzema in 2008 while still in her teens. , as well as with another member of Les Bleus, Sidney Govou, in March 2010, when she was an adult.

Soliciting sex with an underage prostitute is punishable by three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros. But it is up to the prosecution to prove that the customer knew the prostitute was a minor. Ribery was interviewed by police as a witness before the World Cup began and admitted to having a relationship with Zahia, saying he had ignored her age.

Benzema – who also had to be summoned – immediately denied it, and said he did not feel “worried by this story”. Ribery’s lawyer Sophie Bottai said that the story was fabricated to defame her client’s reputation, that someone wanted to make Ribery a scapegoat in the event of France’s defeat at the 2010 World Cup.

Ribery himself initially denied everything. Only when the police announced the evidence did the star admit it, in an attempt to steer the story in a different direction, as if there was a plot to defame her. In the end, the Ribery and Benzema scandal is true, and it is the result of the police investigation, not the honesty of the stars who always say they are victims.

In their report, the police asserted that the truth about the luring of minors in the cases of Ribery and Benzema “seems to have been perfectly proven.” From the name of the person who booked the plane tickets for Zahia Dehar – the call girl born on February 25, 1992, to where she went, what she did, and who she was with on April 7, 2009, everything is clear. in police records.

Who was Dehar’s girlfriend, and when Dehar slept with Ribery at the Kempinski Hotel in Munich, who was Ribery’s girlfriend during the debauchery… In short, the specifics of the night of his birthday 26 of star Ribery, so specific that he slept with a 17-year-old call girl that night, has been prepared for prosecution for the crime of “prostitution of a minor”.

And of course, what Ribery does, Benzema also does. Ribery even drove her to Munich as a birthday present to himself. And in 2010, after being rounded up and questioned by police, pimp and prostitute Zahia Dehar admitted to sleeping with Benzema and Ribery, explaining that she was underage when she did so.

That’s the obvious truth. In the end, Benzema and Ribery only escaped punishment because of an event that they could not control. That was Zahia Dehar’s last-minute change, when she admitted that she had tricked Ribery and Benzema, so they wouldn’t know she was still a teenager.

Zahia has always maintained that she lied about her age to hide her real age. Here is the key point, Benzema and Ribery were tried for “prostitution with minors”. However, the investigating judge never believed in their ignorance.

The judge also gave a bold analysis, contrary to the prosecution’s request to dismiss the case: Zahia’s client must have thought that a teenage prostitute could only hide her age. his, and it also means the risk of having his prostitution revealed, thereby ruining his career.

“This analysis is absurd,” Ribery’s lawyer Carlo Alberto Brusa commented. According to the lawyer in the case, these two stars certainly endured forced confessions during the investigation: Ribery confirmed that he did not know that Zahia was a prostitute, and Benzema argued about having a sexual relationship. sex or not?

But after 3 years, both Ribery and Benzema were acquitted and they were “victims”, because Zahia hid their age. Whether that is true or not, and the reason why Zahia broke the story in favor of the two customers, we must consider for ourselves. However, it is an obvious fact that Ribery and Benzema go to brothels regularly, and are regular customers of pimps.