One year before the organization of the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar, the former President of the UEFA returns, in an interview with “Le Monde”, on its controversial vote in favor of the Emirate.
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It’s noting that Michel Platini did not appreciate the interview that Sepp Blatter granted to the world, in which the former president of the International Football Federation (FIFA) ensures that “without the intervention At the last moment of Sarkozy on Platini, the Qatar would never have had the World Cup “2022. While the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened, in 2019, a judicial information around the allocation of the Worldwide to the Emirate, the Former President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) returns, in an interview with Le Monde, on his controversial vote for the emirate, during the election of December 2, 2010.
Sepp Blatter told the “world” that “without the intervention at the last moment of Sarkozy sur Platini, the Qatar would never have had the World Cup”. Is it true?
Hate, mud and infamy, that’s enough! It’s been five years since Sepp Blatter produces the same false and unfounded allegation. I thought older giving access to wisdom and truth. What he says is absolutely false.
I asked Nicolas Sarkozy [November 23, 2010] to tell him alone, alone, in mind that my choice was made and I was going to vote Qatar [for the World 2022] and Russia for the 2018 World Cup]. As I did with Jacques Chirac to inform him that I was going to vote for Morocco [for the allocation of the 2010 World Cup].
It is normal that as a French citizen, given the political and diplomatic issues around the World Cups, I say to the President of the Republic, for which countries one of his fellow citizens would vote. Nicolas Sarkozy did not intervene on my vote.
Has the Elysée exercised lobbying to get your vote?
Never. I have not received any pressure, direct or indirect, from the Elysee.
as “ Mediapart” revealed it In 2018, the investigators found the notes of the Sarkozy Sports Advisor, Sophie Dion, who show that the Elysee had put in place, in 2010, a strategy to convince you to vote for Qatar. Why did Mr. Sarkozy persuade you to vote for Qatar?
I do not know it. But if it were the case, it was vain: it was totally impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy, and a fortiori for Sophie Dion, to influence my vote or convince me to vote for their choice.
How about Mr. Sarkozy today about this case that earned you in custody in June 2019?
I do not know what to answer your question, if not, “Why did the Elysee invite Qataris as I asked for a lunch at head?”
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