” AT the end, I will win ”. Michel Platini has not said his last word. Still at the heart of the Fifagate scandal, accused of fraud, the former UEFA president wants at all costs to prove his innocence. And remains convinced that he will end up winning the war that opposes him to Swiss justice. In an interview exclusive to Europe 1, the entirety of which will be broadcast on Saturday, January 8, he affirms that he will not renounce in this case to proclaim his innocence: “I always fight and I do not let go”. Above all, Michel Platini does not forget, and remains marked by the accusations against him.
” [Les personnes de la Fifa] banished me for four years. I still have it there (…) I did nothing wrong. I was fired, ”he blurted out. The Swiss justice is still trying to have the end of the story of a payment by Sepp Blatter, then at the head of Fifa, to Michel Platini, who then headed UEFA, for an amount of around 1.9 million euros, in February 2011. The two men say that it is a “balance of wages” in favor of the French. Last November, the two men were brought to justice for “swindle”, “unfair management”, “breach of trust”, and “misrepresentation”.
“The goal was to fire me! “
Today, he claims to be the victim of a real “injustice”: “When you are treated as a swindler, corrupt (…) it’s terrible. You don’t know what’s happening to you, you take it all in the face ”. For Michel Platini, the whole affair is only akin to relentlessness. “We invented a backlog of wages, something bogus, corruption. It’s incredible everything that has fallen on my head, ”he proclaims over the airwaves.
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Why ? According to him, Fifagate is only a plot against him because of his desire to run for the presidency of the international body in 2015. And to conclude, not without bitterness: “The goal was to fire me . Switzerland fired me. The prosecutors there, they fired me. They invented something so that I wouldn’t be the president of Fifa, period. “