On the last day of the ex-president of UEFA and the former boss of FIFA, the Swiss prosecution asked on Tuesday that the federal criminal court to condemn the tandem for “scam, unfair management , abuse of trust and false in the titles “.
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At the call of his name, Michel Platini approached the desk before reading, in a white voice, a short declaration: “I did not invest in the French, European and world institutions of football To find myself before the federal criminal court [TPF], told Swiss judges of Bellinzone on Tuesday, June 21, the ex-French president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). I never had any Red card. (…) In the name of mine, I express my confidence in court justice to restore the truth in this case, wash what was sali and flouted for seven long years. “
In the tenth and last day of his trial and that of the ex-boss of the International Football Football Federation (FIFA), Sepp Blatter, for “suspicions of fraud, unfair management, breach of confidence and false in titles “, the ex -player – who celebrated his 67th birthday on Tuesday – was invited to make a final intervention, before the Court decides on July 8 on their fate in the alleged disloyal payment case of two Millions of Swiss francs (1.9 million euros) made, in February 2011, to French by Mr. Blatter.
At 86, the former number one of FIFA has kept all its faconde. Between two oratories and other reminders of his rank as “commander” of the Swiss army and his status as an ex- “diplomatic representative of our country” in the world, Mr. Blatter reaffirmed that he had “conscience Quiet “:” I have been appointed as a thief, deceptive, animated by criminal intentions, documents falsifier. This is simply false. I am not that. “
This last day of trial was dedicated to the “replicas” of the public prosecutor of the Confederation (MPC) and FIFA, complainant. If he benefited from the simultaneous translation to follow the debates in German, Mr. Platini removed his helmet, for more than two hours, to avoid having to hear the charge of the prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand and the lawyer of the FIFA, Catherine Hohl-Chirazi.
The prosecution denounces “criminal energy” of defendants
Recalling the “gravity” of the offenses accused of the defendants, of which he denounced “criminal energy”, Mr. Hildbrand reiterated his wish to see the condemned tandem. While he requested a sentence of one year and eight months suspended prison sentence against the two men, the magistrate has once again cut their thesis around this 2011 payment: that of an alleged remainder of wise On the basis of an oral agreement sealed in 1998, under which Mr. Platini’s remuneration had been set at a million annual Swiss francs as adviser to the president of FIFA.
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