implicated for “alarming managerial practices” since June, Claude ATCHER has been dismissed Tuesday October 11 of his functions as director general of the next World Cup in France.
by ( with AFP)
less than a year from the kick -off of the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, one of its figures was dismissed. Following the vote of an extraordinary board of directors, the organizing committee of the World Rugby World Cup announced, Tuesday, October 11 in a statement, having revoked Claude Atcher, the general manager of the upcoming World Cup.
Establishment as a conservatory at first, due to “alarming managerial practices”, Claude ATCHER did not survive the conclusions of the mission of the Labor Inspection, requested by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, following the publication in the Team, June 22 , of an investigation denouncing the climate deleterious social within the organizing committee.
If the conclusions of the labor inspectorate report have not been made public, they corroborate that of the Ethics Committee of the Public Interest Group (GIP) France 2023 – which are part of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), the State, and the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF)-, submitted at the end of August.
denouncing “alarming managerial practices on the part of the Director General, altering the functioning of the structure, and the state of suffering of a certain number of employees”, the Minister of Sports had suspended Claude ATCH .
a stir-house less than a year from the World Cup
Former professional player, ex “replacing player” within the XV of France, the one who greatly participated in obtaining the 2007 and 2023 Worlds by France, and 2019 by Japan is continued for “concealment ‘Abuse of trust “,” abuse of corporate goods “and” work hidden by concealment of activity “. “I am one of the people who count. Few people are able to deliver, from a white sheet, such events,” said Claude Atcher during his trial in mid-September, in which he appeared to the Sides of the president of the FFR, Bernard Laporte, and several other “barons” of the tricolor oval.
And if the prosecutor requested a year in prison against him, Claude Apcher probably did not finish his judicial problems. The General Inspectorate of Finance and the General Inspectorate of Higher Education and Research jointly lead a mission to “analyze the existence of possible breaches of economic and financial probity or conflicts of interest” within GIP. In particular, the use made by the old third-line of the GIP bank card for personal expenses are notably studied there, as well as the repeated use of a private driver, billed at the GIP, not limited to the strict professional field .
Claude ATCHER and his “know -how” will no longer be at the helm of what he considered “his World Cup” – according to his words, reported by L’Equipe in June. Close to Bernard Laporte, he is ejected from his organization, with immediate effect. The organizational committee of the World Cup has little time to waste, the tournament approached, its new organization chart was validated on Monday. A current interim managing director, Julien Collette succeeds Actcher while Martine Nemecek is appointed Deputy Managing Director. Less than a year from the start of the competition (from September 8 to October 28), and while the XV of France surfs a positive dynamic after its great home in 2022 in the Six Nations tournament, French rugby would have well passed from an indistinct melee, far from the fields.