Little riddle.
Who had promised mid-January on Twitter "a strict health bubble with twice as many tests" and to be "exemplary"?
Who else had announced a few days later on RMC "that a positive case can happen in a team, but the protocol allows not to spread within the team"?
A clue, these words now take on a dimension that is both tragic and pathetic.
Answer: Bernard Laporte and Serge Simon, president and vice-president of a French rugby federation which this Thursday saw the match against Scotland of its pennant team postponed after 16 cases of Covid-19 among the Blues.
The 30-year-old friends, ex-partners in Bègles-Bordeaux and at the helm of the FFR since 2016, find themselves managing the bankruptcy of a sanitary bubble which they had yet promised to seal.
And, on the instructions of the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, have a week to make an investigation to analyze what is their fiasco today.
"We have the impression that they do not tell us everything"
"It would have been better to have an independent investigation," said the opponent Florian Grill, member of the executive committee and beaten by Laporte in the election for the presidency of the FFR in October.
I hope that the file they are going to return will answer the questions that are being asked.
There, we have the impression that they do not tell us everything.
"" Has a fault been committed?
I don't hope so.
To my knowledge, there is not, estimated, Bernard Laporte on France Info Thursday morning.
The first to investigate and who wants to know the truth is me.
"
According to our information, it should above all make it possible to oblige the leaders of French rugby to put down in writing the responsibilities of each other.
To, if necessary, confront them with their version if it turns out to be denied in the weeks to come.
Especially since at the same time, the Minister of Sports asked her counterpart of Health to look into the tricolor cluster "in order to understand how the chain of contamination was formed within the France team. ".
What is the role of Serge Simon, the Covid-manager?
Because several questions arise.
Did Bernard Laporte know of the suspicions surrounding the behavior of his coach Fabien Galthié during his telephone conversation with the minister on Monday?
Why Serge Simon, who shares the daily newspaper of the XV of France, designated the physical trainer as the “patient zero” of the group in an interview at the Midi Olympique?
The exit of the one who is the "Covid-manager" angered the group, which did not live with this highlighting of an anonymous, who has never violated the protocol.
Especially since the cluster of the XV of France, we must add that of the internship of under 20 years in Portugal in January and contaminations within the Blues of the VII.
The toll is heavy, explanations are long overdue.
