The managing director of the 2023 Rugby World Cup Claude Atcher has been dismissed, the organizing committee announced on Tuesday, following the vote of an extraordinary board of directors. A little over a year before the start of the competition (September 8-October 28), Atcher had been laid off as a precautionary measure at the end of August due to “alarming managerial practices”.
Claude Atcher, the managing director of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, has been dismissed. The dismissal of Claude Atcher, managing director of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, currently on temporary layoff due to “alarming managerial practices”, was examined on Monday by an extraordinary board of directors, according to the summons of which AFP became aware.
The precautionary layoff of Atcher had been announced at the end of August by the Ministry of Sports, then ratified at the beginning of September by the Public Interest Group (GIP), responsible for organizing the World Cup in France, a little more one year from the start of the competition, and pending the conclusions of an investigation by the Labor Inspectorate.
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