The verdict has fallen. And in a period which promises to be economically delicate, the French Federation would have done well. Le Monde reveals that the Versailles administrative court on Friday ordered the French Rugby Federation to pay 3.36 million euros to the Greater Paris Sud Seine-Essonne-Sénart urban community for abandoning the planned Grand Stade project in Essonne. Information revealed for the daily Le Monde .
Local authorities claimed 55 million euros
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As a reminder, Bernard Laporte, not yet president of the FFR, had made the abandonment of the project of new enclosure one of his campaign arguments. Promise kept from December 14, 2016, once his election has been validated. A choice that had displeased, in substance and form, local communities who had agreed with Pierre Camou (former president of the FFR) and his team before.
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Our colleagues from Le Monde argue that this decision to have stopped the project without consultation was retained in the court judgment. It is indicated that the federation has breached "its contractual obligations" with regard to the pre-established agreement regarding the construction of this Great Stadium and that the latter "did not include any clause attributing to one or the other of the parties the power to terminate it unilaterally ”. On the community side, the compensation claimed was up to 55 million euros. The FFR has the possibility to appeal.
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