He is determined to prove his innocence. In Europe 1 Sport, Michel Platini, the former president of UEFA, returns to the scandal of Fifagate, in which he is notably accused of “fraud” and which marked him deeply. “(The Fifa people) banned me for four years. I still have it. I still fight and I do not let go, and in the end I will win,” he says confidently. microphone from Europe 1.
In this case, the Swiss justice wonders about a payment of two million Swiss francs, or nearly 1.9 million euros, made in February 2011 by Sepp Blatter, then president of Fifa, to his counterpart of UEFA, Michel Platini. The two defendants had assured that this payment was a “remainder of wages” in favor of the former French player.
>> Find the full interview with Michel Platini in Europe 1 Sport on Friday January 7 from 8 p.m.
“It’s amazing everything that has fallen on my head”
Michel Platini delivers his version of the facts. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I was fired. We invented an arrears of salary, a bogus thing, corruption. It’s incredible everything that fell on my head,” breathes the former president of the Uefa, who denounces a plot against his will to run for the presidency of Fifa in 2015. “The goal was to fire me. Switzerland fired me. The prosecutors there, they fired me. They invented a trick so that I wouldn’t be president of Fifa, period, “said the ex-footballer on Europe 1.
Michel Platini assures us that it is an “injustice”. “When you are treated as a crook, corrupt, money launderer, etc., it’s terrible. You don’t know what’s happening to you, you take it all in the face”, continues the former French international , who recounts his fall with his former friend Sepp Blatter. “We were at the top of the pyramid. It’s ‘I like Icarus’, you arrive and you have your wings burning,” he recalls.
At the beginning of November 2021, the Swiss justice opened the way to the trial of the two former leaders for “swindle”, “unfair management”, “breach of trust” and “forgery in the titles”.