Invited this Thursday from France Info, the president of the FFR, Bernard Laporte, spoke about the situation of the XV of France, finally authorized to face Scotland on Sunday (4 p.m.), after having been heavily hit by an outbreak of cases of Covd-19 (14 cases in all).
“We are relieved.
We realize that this health crisis, whether inside the XV of France or in everyday life, is difficult to control.
It's a certainty, he said.
When you like the competition and the Six Nations Tournament at that time, you are delighted that it can be played out.
I understand that the Scots also want to play.
They have nothing to do with it, we have nothing to do with it either.
It's like that, you have to deal with it, you have to adapt.
It will allow other players to express themselves. "
And to come back to the suspicions weighing on the coach Fabien Galthié who could be at the origin of this wave of contaminations and the investigation requested by the Minister Delegate in charge of Sports Roxana Maracineanu: "It is always difficult to know the 'origin.
We don't know anywhere.
I would like to know that.
Indeed, this is something that concerns me.
I would really like to know if someone is at fault or not.
(…) We will do it (the survey) ourselves.
We want to know how we got there.
There is a very strict protocol.
When we see that the President of the Republic has been contaminated, while his protocol must be very strict, it shows how hard the protocol is to master.
I believe more in this than anything else.
Indeed a player of 7 has tested positive, but all players who enter the bubble are tested.
Unfortunately we see that the bubble is not infallible.
(On a possible fault) I hope not, to my knowledge, there is not.
The first to investigate and who wants to know is me.
(…) I find it hard to imagine that there was a mistake.
What does a fault mean?
I have been in Italy, I have not seen anyone come out of the bubble.
I imagine that in Ireland it was the same.
(…) You have to adapt, that's life. ”
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