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One year from the World Cup, the bosses of French rugby are at the helm

2022-09-06T15:35:52.791Z


INQUIRY – This Wednesday begins the very media trial of the president of the FFR, Bernard Laporte, his deputy, Serge Simon, and the wealthy businessman Mohed Altrad. Suspicions of corruption, influence peddling or concealment of social abuse weigh on the three men.


The list of charges is long.

A Prévert-style inventory that ranges from the illegal taking of interests to corruption (passive or active), through influence peddling or concealment of social abuse, without being exhaustive.

It is the seriousness of these qualifications that makes the defense lawyers jump, who consider them

"artificial"

.

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According to them, the four years of investigation, searches, the custody of the protagonists in September 2020, the wiretapping… everything would be

“disproportionate in this case”

.

It will be up to the judges of the 32 chamber of the Paris Criminal Court to decide.

The trial, necessarily media, of Bernard Laporte, Mohed Altrad, Serge Simon and Claude Atcher opens indeed this Wednesday.

For a verdict expected on September 22.

And sacred oratorical jousting in perspective.

“Ubuesque situation”

On the one hand, the vice-prosecutor of the Republic, François-Xavier Dulin, an ambitious young magistrate who felt that the brigade for the repression of economic crime (BRDE)…

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Source: lefigaro

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