In a television interview, France's interior minister accused Karim Benzema of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to the latest news, according to the proposal of Valérie Boyer, the vice-president of the Les Républicans party, Karim Benzema's citizenship and the 2022 Ballon d'Or should be revoked, if the claims of the Minister of the Interior are confirmed, Marca wrote.
All this happened after the athlete publicly supported Palestine.
"All our prayers for the residents of Gaza, who are once again the victims of these unjust bombings, which do not spare women and children," said the soccer player (who currently plays for Al Ittihad in Saudi Arabia) a few days ago, since October 7 regarding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Toutes no prières pour les habitants de Gaza victimes une fois de plus de ces bombardements unjustes qui n'épargnent ni femmes ni enfants.
— Karim Benzema (@Benzema) October 15, 2023
The French athlete, who is a devout Muslim, received a surprising amount of criticism for these comments.
Among others, former Israeli goalkeeper Dudu Aouate also publicly spoke out against Benzema. Aouate, who previously played professionally in the Spanish teams of Mallorca and Deportivo de la Coruña, used the same obscene term in five different languages to insult Benzema, wrote AS.com, which also reported that the Muslim Brotherhood is registered as a terrorist group in Egypt and some neighboring countries, but Not in France.
