The FFF is not done with sordid affairs.
A week after the publication of a long investigation in the magazine So Foot, describing in a supported manner a toxic climate within the French Football Federation (FFF), a new investigation targeting the 3F was published this Friday at the end of the morning in Norwegian online media
Josimar Football
, signed by French investigative journalist Romain Molina.
Molina, who revealed numerous sex scandals in sport around the world, announced for several months that he had elements against the institution.
These elements are now out.
In this long article, published in English, he describes a form of institutional law of silence surrounding numerous sexual affairs that took place within the federation in the 2000s. The So Foot investigation and the revelations concerning Noël Le Graët not being , he writes, that the latest in a “long series of macabre allegations of sexual abuse and harassment within the FFF, many of which concern children, which the French Federation has systematically tried to cover up”.
Here we go!
40 years of abuse covered at the FFF: https://t.co/QhbzWZ615b
Sexual assault/harassment/violence on minors, sexual blackmail on male and female referees, sexual assault/harassment by leaders: more than 10 cases are listed
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— Romain Molina (@Romain_Molina) September 16, 2022
“When something happens, we shut up.
That's how it works, testifies a former member of the board of directors of the Federation to Josimar.
Otherwise, it's over for you.
They are too powerful.
The second you talk about abuse, you're out of the game. It's not only the FFF but also the LFP (professional football league), the clubs.
Have you seen the number of cases we have faced in the past two years?
What have we done to protect our children?
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Politicians unaware of many cases
The investigation notably develops at length the case, among others, of Angélique Roujas, "dismissed in 2013 after the FFF learned that she had had sexual relations with underage players", and David San José, "dismissed for inappropriate behavior after sending love messages to a 13-year-old center player in 2013".
These two people continue to work with children, she reveals, and "no effort has been made to inform (the political leaders) of the affair, whereas French law requires it".
Only one letter written by Noël Le Graët in 2013, while the first facts date back to 2004, has been identified, concerning Roujas.
“We threatened the FFF to refuse to play if it was allowed to be part of the national team's coaching staff, explains a player to Josimar.
That is why they made this decision after almost ten years of inaction.
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The investigation thus develops several extremely worrying cases.
“All the political figures mentioned (former sports ministers Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and Valérie Fourneyron, former secretary of state for sports Thierry Braillard, and former sports advisers to the then president, Thierry Rey and Nathalie Iannetta) have confirmed that they have not been alerted for any of these cases,” writes Josimar.
This Thursday, on the sidelines of the announcement of the list of Didier Deschamps for the next two matches of the Blues, the FFF announced to file a complaint for defamation against the magazine So Foot.
This Friday, the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra had already received Noël Le Graët and Florence Hardouin to discuss these revelations, and decided in the process to launch an audit at the FFF.
A new affair, with new revelations, therefore follows immediately.
The journalist Romain Molina has already announced the publication of a "second salvo", on his Youtube channel on which he is very active, in the afternoon.
