Tag: Sepp
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini acquitted by Swiss justice
Michel Platini, in Bellinzona, July 8, 2015. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP The verdict fell on Friday July 8 at 10 a.m. in the main hall of the Swiss Federal Criminal…
FIFAgate: Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter acquitted in Switzerland
Europe 1 with AFP 10:18 a.m., July 08, 2022modified to 10:21 a.m., July 08, 2022 It was one of the most important judicial moments for Michel Platini. After seven years…
Michel Platini – Sepp Blatter trial: suspended prison sentence required against former leaders, accused of defrauding FIFA
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini in Zurich, Switzerland, May 29, 2015. The two men, once among the most powerful bodies in football, appear in criminal court on Wednesday for a…
At their trial, Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter seek to prove the existence of a “verbal contract”
Michel Platini in Bellinzona, Switzerland, on June 8, 2022. ALESSANDRO CRINARI / AP How to prove an alleged oral agreement in front of the judges? On the third day of…
Fifagate: how will the trial of Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter take place
Yohann Tritz (special envoy to Bellinzona), edited by Solène Leroux with AFP 2:19 p.m., June 08, 2022 Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter are on the dock this Wednesday, at the…
The shadow of Gianni Infantino in the background of the trial of Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter
Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter, in 2008. BOB EDME / AP Despite their mutual hatred, Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter have forged an alliance of circumstance against a common enemy:…
Trial time for Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter
Sepp Blatter (left) and Michel Platini (right), in 2015. STF / AFP It’s an old story that earned the former president of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Sepp Blatter and…
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini will be tried in Switzerland for “fraud”
Sepp Blatter, FIFA President from 1998 to 2015, and Michel Platini, UEFA President from 2007 to 2015, in June 2014, in Sao Paulo (Brazil). FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP Former allies…
new criminal proceedings opened in Switzerland against ex-president Sepp Blatter
Joseph Blatter, in May 2015. PATRICK B. KRAEMER / AP At 86, Sepp Blatter has not finished with the justice of his country. According to information from Worldthe former president…
“Karim Benzema would have deserved the Ballon d’Or”, launches Sepp Blatter
Interview by Cyrille de La Morinerie and Lionel Rosso, edited by Gauthier Delomez 6:00 p.m., January 23, 2022 Support that will delight the French clan. At the microphone of Europe…
Sepp Blatter on Fifagate: “Infantino was in the maneuver”
EXCLUSIVE During this exclusive interview, the former Swiss leader talks about his legal troubles, proclaims his innocence and reiterates his support for Michel Platini in the Fifagate affair. He also…
Stadium violence: why Sepp Blatter wants to take nine points away from offending clubs
Interview by Cyrille de La Morinerie and Lionel Rosso, edited by Gauthier Delomez 6:00 p.m., January 22, 2022, modified to 6:27 p.m., January 22, 2022 “This is a question that…