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It is up to Le Monde on the decision of the judges from Lausanne to confirm, Friday, December 11, the provisional suspension of ninety days imposed on 8 October by the ethics committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA) to ex-n o 10 Blues, whose candidacy for president of the world body is currently frozen.
The CAS decision is it good or bad for Michel Platini?
There is some disappointment after this decision, because we hoped that Michel Platini would be allowed to resume his duties today. There was no shortage of legal or ethical arguments or why. So that, we have not been heard. But there is still an element of satisfaction because the CAS sent a very clear message to FIFA saying that he is not about to prolong unduly the procedure and that it is no longer a question to prevent by procedural means Mr Platini to stand for FIFA.
“ Michel Platini has lost this round but it is not final ” said Matthieu Reeb, CAS Secretary General …
It was obvious that they had more hopes for this decision. I do not know if we can consider that the first race is lost. We can still consider that it is very clear now that the calendar should allow Mr. Platini to be heard before CAS on the bottom before submitting his application. FIFA can not play for time. And that’s still a great satisfaction.
This is exactly the message that the CAS delivers today. The Appeal Board of FIFA on the issue of temporary suspension, put thirty-eight days, according to a schedule that is the only master, in making its decision. CAS says: “There is no question that to happen again on the substantive decision. “That means we can imagine that we will have a decision on the merits on December 21. We are going to enter the time the Appeal Board. And it will have to work quickly enough to allow time to enter the TAS behind. The CAS said he will not let Michel Platini bogged down in procedural wrangling that would prevent arise.
Do you think Michel Platini has engaged in a race against time , who must be cleared on the bottom by the CAS to 26 January in order to run for the presidency of FIFA a month later?
We are in a race against time since some time. We had two parallel procedures: FIFA procedure with all the reservations that can be imagined, because we had the feeling that the decision was already made before the start of the procedure; and then the procedure before the CAS, a true independent and impartial tribunal, in which we had more confidence. But to be seized, it is subject to the exhaustion of the first procedure. The CAS has to articulate these procedures so that FIFA procedure is properly submitted to the CAS procedure.
What state of mind was Michel Platini this morning?
M. Platini is a striker, so it does not easily break down, it is a top athlete. It is still particularly disappointed not to be present tomorrow at the draw for the Euro 2016 (held in Paris). Personally, I find it unacceptable that a French UEFA president is absent in the draw of a Euro which will take place in France. He has no right to be there because an investigation report, with 1500 pages of documents, said that Mr Platini deserved a lifetime ban. The grotesque disproportion of this indictment prevents Mr Platini to be present at what should have been a great moment for the life of European football and also French.
Saturday, the Secretary UEFA, Gianni Infantino, Deputy Michel Platini as a candidate for the presidency of FIFA, who will be the master of ceremonies of the draw. Should we see a symbol?
I think Mr. Infantino said repeatedly that he would withdraw from the moment Mr Platini would be allowed to stand. It is not a replacement within the meaning of football but rather in the sense of rugby. That is to say, it goes but it can also stand out.
Why there will he not a debate between Michel Platini and FIFA president, Joseph Blatter (also suspended ninety days), December 18, at the hearing of the UEFA boss before the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee?
There has been an attempt by FIFA to put in the same bag Mr Blatter and Mr Platini. This attempt was so grotesque that it has fizzled. All this has nothing to do. You should know that with the production of new documents this week (an internal memorandum UEFA dated November 1998), the bulk of which was criticized Mr Platini is to say, Intellectual building that was in the ratio of M me Allard [Vanessa Allard, Member of the independent ethics committee of FIFA, which has required a lifetime ban against Mr Platini] collapses .
M me Allard said that no trace of an agreement between FIFA and Mr Platini in 1998 the payment of 2 million Swiss francs (1 8 million euros paid by Mr Blatter Platini in February 2011) can be explained only by a corruption Mr Platini to vote for Sepp Blatter, a candidate for a fourth term. From the moment we found that not only there was an agreement on price, and that more half of the official FIFA and UEFA were aware in 1998, everything collapses, it is the charge of corruption, the charge of conflict of interest. The link you trying to do between Mr Blatter and Mr Platini is meaningless.
Do you think that the internal memo UEFA 1998 will have an impact, December 18, at the hearing scheduled before the trial chamber of FIFA?
If it does not, it is despair. This note shows that the grounds for prosecution against Mr Platini does not exist. They say there is no contract but if there is a contract, there is an amount and everyone knows in 1998. Those who said he was not aware as Gerhard Aigner (former UEFA general secretary) were caught in their own contradictions, since the note was signed by him. This reflects the approximations and partial memories of some leaders. I say some because I do not believe in the conspiracy theory. I think there are a number of people who do not want Mr Platini is president of FIFA because they are afraid perhaps to their benefits, their sinecures. Instead, Mr Platini bring some new blood and vitality and freedom to FIFA.
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