technician who then flogged it around and tried to make an approach to mathieu valbuena in the form of blackmail in order to get money from him to suppress this tape. this man and his cohorts failed initially to make an approach or at least the approach failed and then they had the idea of coming in via karim benzema. it was a childhood friend of karim benzema through which he heard about it and he agreed to make a pitch. famously at the french national coaching centre in 2015, karim benzema approached mathieu valbuena and said i can help you get rid of this problem of the sex tape. if you go and meet such and such a person it will come to an end. in court he said he was trying to help his fellow team—mates but the court found otherwise, that he had to have