Great maneuvers and small low blows between "friends".
Last Thursday, beIN Sports summoned its partner Canal + in summary proceedings before the Nanterre commercial court.
Reason for the scramble?
TV rights for the football championship.
The Qatari channel wants to force its partner to pay 332 million euros for the two matches per day of Ligue 1 that it sub-licenses to him.
What Canal + refuses ...
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A few days earlier, the Vivendi group chain had notified him by mail that it was suspending this sublicense and had therefore not honored the first payment of 500,000 euros that it owed it.
Pushing de facto beIN Sports, contract holder with the Professional Football League, to pay the bill directly.
But the Qatari channel categorically refuses.
She therefore turned against Canal +.
"
Everyone passes the mistigri
", sums up a source close to the file.
Expected at the end of next week, the decision of the commercial court will say who, Canal + or beIN Sports,
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