Karim Benzema says France coach Didier Deschamps 'bowed' to racists

The French forward, implicated in a sex tape scam, tells Spanish magazine he was left out of squad for Euro 2016 because of his North African origins.

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The France striker Karim Benzema has claimed that the national team manager, Didier Deschamps, “bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France” when agreeing to leave him out of the squad for Euro 2016.