After the former France international Karim Benzema expressed his “solidarity” with the Palestinian people, in the face of the Israeli bombings in the Gaza Stripa riot broke out in the French country that could end with their citizenship and even their Golden Ball.
Benzemaglory of real Madrid and currently in the Arab League, was linked by the government of Emmanuel Macron to be linked to the Muslim Brothersan international Islamic organization considered “terrorist” in some countries, but not in France.
Given this, the leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon He expressed his solidarity with the footballer in a message on his account. social network X (formerly Twitter)where “the Government and its friends have decided to demonize him” and call him “french paper”.
“Hi sir Benzema. I don’t know him and I don’t know anything about football. But the Government and its friends have decided to demonize him. They call it ‘paper French’. With such enemies using those words, you must be an extraordinary person, without ethnic or religious hatred,” the message began. Melenchon.
The former socialist leader referred to his own Spanish roots to establish a comparison with Benzemaof Algerian origin and born in France.
“As the grandson of people who were also called ‘paper French’ by the Petainists, who removed the papers of those who had been French for less than ten years, I know that France belongs to all who choose it. “Those who insult us do not deserve it,” he said.
Melenchonwho came third in the last presidential elections, thus came out to respond to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who this Wednesday accused Benzema to be linked to the Muslim Brothers.
The statements were known after the support that the former forward of the real Madrid provided to the inhabitants of Palestine Gaza Stripsurrounded and in many cases massacred by Israel attacks ordered in response to another also exceptional offensive against its territory implemented by the Palestinian fundamentalist movement Hamas on Saturday, October 7.
“All our prayers for the inhabitants of Loop who once again are victims of these unjust bombings that spare neither women nor children,” the 35-year-old striker wrote in the social network.
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The Muslim Brothersrecognized as a “terrorist” organization in numerous countries, are one of the most influential groups in the Arab world.
Born in 1928, it is the oldest Islamist organization in the Arab and Muslim world, it is considered a “terrorist organization” in some countries, including United States, Egypt or Russia.
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A senator asks to withdraw her nationality and the Ballon d’Or
The French conservative senator Valerie Boyer requested this Wednesday that the nationality be withdrawn from Karim Benzema if it is confirmed that he has links to the Islamist group Muslim Brothersas the Minister of the Interior suggested, Gérarld Darmanin.
“If the Interior Minister’s statements are confirmed, we have to consider sanctions against Karim Benzema. A symbolic sanction would be to first withdraw the Golden Ball. Then, we have to ask that his nationality be withdrawn,” the legislator said in a statement.
The reaction of the senator from Los Republicanos (LR) comes two days after Darmanin assured in a television interview that the player has links to that Islamic group born in Egypt.
Boyer remembered that Benzema has the double French and Algerian nationality. “We cannot accept that a French binational, recognized international, dishonors and betrays our country like this,” he said.
Source: Ambito
