He settled down on his folding seat.
Over the counts against him and shelled by Rose-Marie Hunault, the president of the 32nd chamber of the Paris criminal court, he even turned red.
Bernard Laporte, usually so sure of himself, must have seen his world crumble.
The ordeal lasted a good three quarters of an hour then, when the verdict was announced, around 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday, December 13, the president of the French Federation thought he was blowing for a moment.
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