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Prosecutor requests suspended jail term for Real's Benzema over a sex tape

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France forward Karim Benzema. [Agencies]

French prosecutors have recommended that Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema be handed a 10-month suspended jail term for complicity in the attempted blackmail of his former France international team mate Mathieu Valbuena over a sex tape, AFP news agency and BFM television reported on Thursday.

Prosecutors also recommended that Benzema be fined 75,000 euros ($87,262.50), AFP and BFM said.

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