Just over a week before the Euro 2016 football tournament kicks off in France, Karim Benzema has claimed that he was left out of the French squad because of racism. France's sports minister called his claim "unacceptable".
Benzema was left out of the line-up because he has been named in a criminal investigation into a blackmail case targetting another French national team footballer, Mathieu Valbuena, according to French squad manager Didier Deschamps.
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