Benzema’s Endorsement of Palestine Causes Controversy in France

All our prayers for the inhabitants of Gaza, whom are once again victims of these unjust bombings that spare neither women nor children.

Karim Benzema (on X)

“Mister Karim Benzema has notorious ties, as we all know, with the Muslim Brotherhood

French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin

The French interior minister, Darmanin backed up his claim that Benzema had links to the Muslim Brotherhood by highlighting his refusal to sing the La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, for which he was regularly criticised during his time playing for France.

He also drew attention to a photo in which Benzema was pictured alongside iman Meaux Nourdine Mamoune, whose home was searched in 2020 as part of an investigation into the murder of French secondary school teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic terrorist.

Lastly, Darmanin referred to the player liking a social media post by Russian MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagedov attacking French president Emmanuel Macron and his “disciples” for “insulting the faith” of more than 1.5 billion Muslims.

Karim Benzema is an “agent of Hamas propaganda,”

Nadine Morano is a French politician serving in the European Parliament.

Karim (Benzema) is an accomplice to terroism

Franck Tapiro is an Advertiser/Writer

In a tweet, footballer Karim Benzema sent “his prayers” to the residents of Gaza. “All our prayers for the inhabitants of Gaza who are once again victims of these unjust bombings which spare neither women nor children,” he wrote.

Remember, Karim Benzema was transferred to the Al-Ittihad club in Saudi Arabia last June and also benefits from dual nationality: French and Algerian.

Also, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Damanin, announced this Wednesday, October 18. that Karim Benzema is “in connection with the Muslim Brotherhood”.
Let us remember, as explained in particular by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, anthropologist and responsible for research at the CNRS: “Muslim Brotherhood is a political-religious movement which has given itself the mission to organize the march of all Muslims towards the same objective: the establishment of Islamic society worldwide.

It is a theocratic movement which will ultimately have to get rid of democracy. “

If the statements of the Minister of Internal Affairs are true, we should consider sanctions against Karim Benzema.

Initially, it would be a symbolic sanction. withdrawing the Ballon d’Or.

Finally, we must request loss of citizenship. We cannot accept that a French dual national, internationally known, can dishonor and even betray our country in this way.

Sen. Valérie Boyer represents Bouches-du-Rhône in the French Senate

Everything is false. Benzema never had any relationship with ‘Muslim Brotherhood’. We are thinking about prosecutions against this minister in application, for example, of the law on the manipulation of information dear to our government… and defamation or even public insult.”

Hugues Vigier (Karim Benzema’s lawyer)