Karim Benzema, the French footballer who currently plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad, has filed a defamation lawsuit against France’s minister of the interior Gerald Darmanin.
This comes in response after Darmanin on October 15, 2023, accused Benzema of having “a notorious link” with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a Sunni Muslim Islamist group.
Speaking to French TV channel CNews, Darmanin said, “We have closed 1,100 Islamist establishments. And in recent weeks, I’ve been particularly interested, Benzema is linked, we all know it, notoriously with the Muslim Brotherhood.”