On Wednesday, Mediapart shook the football world by revealing that PSG would have called on a "digital army" via the Digital Big Brother (DBB) agency to cyberharass its opponents and even some of its players like Adrien Rabiot or Kylian Mbappé .
Even if the capital club denies having had knowledge of such actions, the former director of operations of URéputation, a subsidiary of DBB, confirmed to RTL the information from Mediapart.
"Everything was done in collaboration with the club," says Frédéric Geldhof, whose structure was responsible, according to Mediapart, "for carrying out very violent and often crude raids against many targets" via the creation of fake accounts on the main platforms. on line.
Media deemed hostile to the club or the Rennes supporter slapped by Neymar in the final of the Coupe de France have thus been targeted by smear campaigns on social networks.
Frédéric Geldhof confirms to our colleagues that he collaborated well with PSG and that he was in contact with Jean-Martial Ribes, then director of communication, who left his post last May.
He explains that he also met Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, the president of PSG.
"Our role was to put to music on social networks and on the Internet the strategy of the client's communication
department (Editor's note: that is to say Paris Saint-Germain)
", he assures.
Geldhof insists that everything its teams have been able to implement has been done "with the client, in a global strategy put in place by the communication department".
The former head of URéputation is surprised by the Parisian denials.
"That PSG can say no, no, we don't know them, he says, it's amazing".