In the magazine “Investigation supplement”, eight months of very excavated investigation work lift the veil on the controversial world which is held in the emirate from November 20.
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On November 23, 2010, the President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, received at lunch, at the Elysée, Michel Platini, president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), in the presence of the Crown Prince (and Current emir) of Qatar, Tamim ben Hamad al Thani, and the Qatari Prime Minister. What have discussed the guests, a few days before the designation, on December 2, 2010, of the gas emirate as host country of the 2022 football World Cup?
After eight months of a very excavated investigation, based on numerous legal documents, the magazine “Complement of investigation”, in collaboration with the Radio France investigation cell, brings new elements to the alleged role of France in the allocation of the World Cup to the Emirate, which will be the subject of judicial information opened in 2019 for “corruption” by the national financial prosecutor -hidden = “True”>
Why did the influential Platini finally voted for the emirate? Did he get counterparts? Nicolas Sarkozy has “mounted” the support of France in exchange for the takeover by Qatar Sports Investments from Paris Saint-Germain, then held by the Colony Capital Fund of his friend Sébastien Bazin, current CEO of the Accor group?
A note from the diplomatic cell of the Elysée of November 2010, written before lunch at the Elysée and consulted by “complement of investigation”, lights up the case for a new day: among the subjects to the ‘Agenda of this meeting appeared the candidacy of Qatar at the World Cup as well as “the sale of anti -missile defense systems” and “the sale of combat aircraft” (Dassault Rafale).
Sports councilor of Mr. Sarkozy to the Elysée, author of notes on the allocation of the 2022 World Cup for the attention of the Head of State, the former deputy Sophie Dion (LR) denies all collusion with Qatar But admits having received 13,000 euros as part of a consultant contract of 52,000 euros signed with the emirate in February 2012, while she still officiated at the Elysée.
Among the clues exhumed by the director Pierre-Stéphane also include messages sent by Sébastien Bazin to relatives, evoking the “key messages” transmitted to Nicolas Sarkozy before lunch on November 23, 2010 and a “deal” with Qatar.
Equipped with a tiny camera, Fort Pierre-Stéphane has also filmed the back of the preparations for this World Cup: the images are eloquent. With the help of migrant workers, he went to the Doha industrial zone, where he noted the unhealthy – the word is weak – of the premises in which workers are.
The accent is placed on the questionable practices of a subcontractor from Accor security provider, Al Bateel Security, and on one of the seven providers of the Al Messila de Doha hotel (where the team will be housed from France during the competition) for the unworthy treatment inflicted on its employees.
“If there had not been football, it would have been worse, clearly worse,” said the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët. Just before the broadcast of the documentary, the FFF finally decided to “send a specific mission to check on site that all providers respect social rights”.