French footballers Franck Ribéry and Karim Benzema go on trial in Paris on Monday over charges they paid to have sex with an underage prostitute, reports FRANCE 24.
The scandal first erupted in 2010, just before the World Cup opened in South Africa.
Ribéry, who plays midfield for German club Bayern Munich, and Benzema, a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid, made front page news after allegations emerged that they paid to have sex with an underage prostitute named Zahia Dehar.
While Ribéry, 30, and Benzema, 26, have insisted that they did not know Dehar was under 18, they now each face a maximum sentence of three years in jail and a 45,000-euro fine if found guilty.
Dehar, who is known simply as Zahia, has said in the past that she lied to both men about her age.
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