Nothing is done but French rugby is starting to come out of the rut, thanks to the good results of the XV of France, the only team still in the running to achieve the Grand Slam in the Six Nations Tournament. Recently, rugby news had been polluted by the tragic deaths of young players, serious concussion problems and extra-sports affairs. The best known of them concerning Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation, suspected of favoritism towards Mohed Altrad, the president of the club of Montpellier, become shirt sponsor of the XV of France.
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As a reminder, the president of the FFR is suspected of having intervened with the FFR appeal committee which, in June 2017, had reduced the sanctions taken in first instance against the Montpellier club, led by Mohed Altrad. After his election as head of the FFR, Laporte had signed, personally, with the billionaire an image contract for an amount of 150,000 euros. Faced with the conflict of interest accusations, he finally gave up. In the process, more than half of the thirteen members of the FFR's appeal board had resigned. Three members of the commission who imposed the sanctions on the club were heard in February 2019 by investigators from the Economic Crime Suppression Brigade (BRDE). An investigation by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) is still in progress.
"Laporte never said to me:" I would like to be paid offshore, can you fix that for me? ""
Mourad BoudjellalMonday, on the waves of Europe 1 , Mourad Boudjellal, former president of RC Toulon, wanted to defend the one who was his coach and who won three European Cups between 2013 and 2015, and a shield of Brennus in 2014 "I know him and I find that everything that is said about him is false. (…) I had it five years at Rugby Club Toulonnais, it was five years of happiness. He has had the opportunity many times to offer me things that are not honest. He never did. He never said to me, "I would like to be paid offshore, can you fix that for me?" "
The next elections for the FFR presidency will take place at the end of the year. And an opposition list was created around Florian Grill, surrounded by several eminent personalities from the world of rugby, notably Guy Novès, Serge Blanco, Fabien Pelous and Jean-Claude Skrela. Boudjellal, he stands behind the outgoing candidate: "I support Bernard Laporte because I know him. I can guarantee you that Bernard Laporte is in the right place. ” Even if the ex-Var leader "thinks that he (Laporte) called Simonet (president of the FFR appeal committee, Editor's note), but without measuring that he was president of the Federation, by saying, "Okay, come on, this case breaks our candy, we fix it and we move on." "
"My answer is extremely simple: I think Mourad Boudjellal has not read the 300 proposals in my program"
Florian GrillBoudjellal also mentioned the opposition list to Laporte, called Ovale Ensemble, for the next FFR elections: “I have read quite a bit of what he says. But the people who build a program saying only: "This is not good, this is not good, this is not good", that doesn't interest me. I want people to tell me what to do, not what not to do. ” And to continue: “The best film critic has never made a great film. (Florian Grill) is just a film critic for me, and Bernard Laporte is a filmmaker, he makes films. ” We can say that Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol (among others) started at Cahiers du Cinéma before making their own films…
Questioned by Le Figaro , Florian Grill made a point of responding to the words of the former President of Toulon: “My answer is extremely simple: I think that Mourad Boudjellal has not read the 300 proposals in my program. I invite him to visit my website to do so. I do not wish to enter into a sterile controversy with him. ”
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