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Karim Benzema 'set for France recall' years after sex tape scandal got him dropped
Real Madrid striker is suspected of encouraging then teammate Mathieu Valbuena into paying blackmailers after they threatened to release intimate footage of him.Benzema is set to face trial in October, and denies any wrongdoing.The incident made headlines in 2015, and the 33-year-old has been frozen out by national team boss Didier Deschamps ever since.Then-French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for the frontman to be dropped, and in 2019 France Football president Noel le Graet said that Benzema would never play for the national team again.Responding on his Twitter account, the former Lyon forward said: “If you think I'm done, let me play with one of the other countries I am eligible for and we'll see.”However, Benzema never changed
