According to Mediapart, the President of the Republic offered to help Michel Platini in the case concerning the award of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
In its Wednesday edition, Mediapart published information concerning Emmanuel Macron, Michel Platini and to a lesser extent Jacques Vendroux. “D‘after wiretapping to which Mediapart had access, Michel Platini, implicated in cases related to Fifa, said in 2019 that Emmanuel Macron is committed to “helping” him judicially. The President of the Republic also discreetly received the former Ballon d’Or at the Élysée Palace in the presence of journalist Jacques Vendroux, who claims that his legal affairs have been discussed “Write journalists from the media directed by Edwy Plenel.
The former UEFA boss is under investigation in France, his name having been cited in particular in the award of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but also in a payment of 2ME by FIFA. And on the occasion of a telephone call in May 2019 with the deputy director general of the services of the city of Marseille, Michel Platini would have indicated that he was awaiting the assistance of the President of the Republic, who would have actually received it in 2018. Interviewed by Mediapart, Jacques Vendroux denied that Emmanuel Macron was involved in this story. ” The president never said, ‘I’ll take care of you.’ Never, never, never (…) He never said, ‘I’ll help you.’ He said, I don’t know, maybe he said a sentence like ‘I’m going to see’, but Michel didn’t ask for anything. And the president has promised nothing “, Confides the journalist, while on the side of the Elysee we deny having promised help to Michel Platini, all specifying that if Emmanuel Macron had received the former player it was just” the football icon and not the litigant ».
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