<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span lang="ar">Player Karim Benzema, striker of the</span> <a href="https://news.sbisiali.com/news/article/%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%B6%D9%85-%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar"><strong>Saudi club Al-Ittihad Jeddah</strong></span></a> <span lang="ar">, is facing increasingly escalating crises with France, of which he holds citizenship, as a result of his support for Gaza and his rejection of all the heinous crimes taking place in Gaza.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1080/1201;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/bf73bfa4-8c92-4ccd-ace7-826bc7959194.jpg" ></figure><h1 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );"><span lang="ar">"sbisiali" reviews the latest news about Karim Benzema's crisis with France</span></span></h1><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">The beginning of the story when Benzema wrote: “All our prayers are for the people of Gaza who are once again falling victim to this unjust bombing that does not spare women or children.”</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">France, whose nationality he holds, could not tolerate this explicit support from Benzema for Palestine, especially with the extremely harsh restrictions it imposed on its people regarding support for Palestine and its imposition of sanctions for demonstrations that support the Palestinian cause, which made the French Minister of the Interior, Gerard Darmenian, accuse Benzema of having ties to a terrorist group. According to the French newspaper Le Parisien.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">The French Interior Minister said: “We closed 1,100 Islamic institutions, and in recent weeks I was particularly concerned with Mr. Benzema, who, as we all know, is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. We attack the Brotherhood because they create a jihadist atmosphere.”</span> </p><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://x.com/Benzema/status/1713584346441912495?s=20"></oembed></figure><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );"><span lang="ar">Karim Benzema responded to the French minister</span></span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">International press reports confirmed that</span> <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar"><strong>Karim Benzema</strong></span></a> <span lang="ar">intends to file a judicial complaint against the French Minister of the Interior, following this accusation, while he is currently considering taking legal measures against him.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">While Benzema's lawyer, Hughes Vigier, denied any connection between his client and the Islamic organization, saying: "This is not true!" Karim Benzema had no relationship with this organization.”</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">He continued: “We are considering taking action against this minister in application, for example, of the law on tampering with information that is dear to our government... and defamation or even public insult, because this non-existent connection with the Muslim Brotherhood, he says, however, is notorious, "It is clearly presented as insulting. It is unacceptable for those who govern to think they are entitled to do anything out of pure opportunism."</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1387/1734;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/addbc5a4-9b7c-4f57-b310-3c040303db07.jpg" ></figure><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );"><span lang="ar">Parliamentary demands to withdraw the Ballon d'Or from Benzema</span></span></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">For his part, a representative of the French Parliament, Valérie Bouyer, demanded that Benzema's Ballon d'Or award be withdrawn, as well as his nationality.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">According to the RMC Sport report, nothing prevents the possibility of withdrawing the award from Benzema, but at the same time there is no clause in the award list that allows this, but if this happens, it will be a historical precedent, the first of its kind.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">According to international reports, there are former stars who have not been stripped of the award despite being convicted or questioned in tax cases, such as Messi, Modric, and Figo, or rape cases, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, and the phenomenon Ronaldo.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:541/708;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/027f750f-df55-4720-842c-1f91e42057d3.png" ></figure><h4 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );"><span lang="ar">Broad Arab support for Benzema</span></span></h4><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Despite all these crises, Karim stands up to everyone and does not back down from his position or fear anyone. Therefore, he received broad Arab support because of his manly stance in rejecting crimes that lack all meanings of humanity.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">The hashtag “</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%D9%83%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%20%D9%85%D8%B9%20%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%20%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7&src=typed_query" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar">#We_are_all_Karim_Benzema</span></a> <span lang="ar">” was trending in Arabic and English on the X website, and the Arab public supported it widely.</span> </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1080/413;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/d3ff1720-fe1c-44d7-a1bb-3a1f9efbaf3c.jpg" ></figure>