Ribery, Benzema on trial over prostitution  Staff reports
Modified: January 20, 2014 at 10:36 am •  Published: January 20,
2014     "We have a truncated trial. On one hand the civil party
(Dehar) who was, let's say, at the time the victim, who is no
longer the victim and no longer considers herself one and
therefore she is out of the trial," Ribery's lawyer, Carlo
Alberto Brusa, said Monday. "On the other hand, I remind you
that the prosecutor has recommended that the case be dismissed.
By consequence, today, we have a trial without accusations."
Ribery is alleged to have had sex with Dehar three times —
including at the home of Kamel Ramdani, 39, one of several
people who are on trial after a probe into a suspected network
of prostitutes operating out of a nightclub called "Zaman Cafe"
on Paris' Champs-Elysees first opened in 2010.  "As far as I'm
concerned, I will do everything possible so that France and a
leading football player will be cleared of everything," Brusa
said.   "No one sold their charms at m