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Made famous by the scandal which struck Franck Ribéry and Karim Benzema in the spring of 2010, Zahia Dehar recently returned to the consequences of this affair.
Kylian Mbappé is not the first star of the France team to have been marked by scandal. While the Madrid striker is accused of rape following his trip to Sweden, Franck Ribéry and Karim Benzema were accused in April 2010 of having had paid sexual relations with a young escort girl when she was a minor. The Zahia affair was launched.
If the case finally concluded four years later with a trial at the end of which the two players of the French team were acquitted, the young woman still went through very complicated times. “ I felt bad, I felt like the world was collapsing on top of me. I said to myself: what did I do to deserve this? Because I didn’t look for anything. It wasn’t me who went to file a complaint: they came to get me,”
she said on the set of C l’hebdo.
“For me, it was the end of my life”
“I was devastated because I knew I was going to start my life at the age of 18 with the worst label a woman could have. For me, from that moment on, everything was going to be forbidden, she continued, adding: “Because of slut shaming and whorephobia which is extreme in our society and until now this scourge has not been resolved. We put women in categories and women who have the misfortune of being in this category of bad women, in these cases, society makes them pay a price which is enormous, which is horrible. »
And Zahia, who has since become an actress after launching into lingerie styling, was so distraught that she even thought about committing suicide. “Because I said to myself: what is my future concretely? I’m going to look for work, I’m going to be humiliated everywhere, everyone is going to laugh at me, all the time. With this label, everything is forbidden to us,
she whispered. I was devastated, I was in tears. For me, it was the end of my life. »
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