could rise to 100,000 a day. one of europe s best known footballers, real madrid striker karim benzema, has gone on trial in france accused of complicity in an attempt to extort money from fellow footballer mathieu valbuena over a sex tape. prosecutors say 33 year old benzema, who didn t appear in court, encouraged his team mate, midfielder valbuena, to pay blackmailers to stop a sex tape, which was found on his phone, from being made public. the case dates back to 2015, when the team mates were at a training camp in france. hugh schofield is in paris with the background. it is alleged that at their training ground just south of paris, in october 2015, ground just south of paris, in 0ctober2015, benzema ground just south of paris, in october 2015, benzema approached valbuena and said to him, i know you ve got trouble with a sex tape which was a video which had been originally at that point. it had