FFF audit: Florence Hardouin, director general, relatively spared

Speed ​​several times by the General Inspectorate in her provisional audit report, the director general of the French Football Federation, laid down on January 11, was much less criticized than her “boss”, Christmas Graët.

by Rémi Dupré

Florence Hardouin and her relatives feared this moment. Monday, January 30, afternoon, the director general of the French Football Federation (FFF), 56, received by email the version of the provisional audit report of the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and the research (gesr) which concerns it. If we do not know at this stage the detail of the parts transmitted to M me hardouin, one can imagine that the interested party had to be relieved in terms of the content of the copy of 32 pages sent to the committee executive of the FFF, of which MO12345LEMONDE has learned.

Speed ​​several times by the inspection mission diligent by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castera, Florence Hardouin, called “DG” of the FFF in 2013, was relatively spared by the listeners compared to its president , Christmas Le Graët, exhausted for “his behavior towards women, his public statements and the failures of the governance of the FFF”.

layoff on January 11, by conservatory by the FFF executive committee, convened on February 21 for an interview prior to a possible dismissal for “serious fault”, Florence Hardouin is certainly targeted for her “displaced authoritarianism”, In line with the conclusions of the internal report diligent by Noël Le Graët, in 2020, with the full -direction consulting firm. But the Igesr says that “if its management can be qualified as brutal, there is no need to qualify it as harassment”. “The management of the director general seems to be relaxed,” also specify the listeners. The inspection mission has not seized justice concerning M me

é> hardouin, under article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, when it did it for M . Le Graët.

The alleged “leniency” of the IGESR with regard to M me Hardouin and its decision not to issue a report to the Paris prosecutor’s office about the CEO have tried several former employees employees of the FFF. The latter retain a very bad memory of the management style of M me hardouin or consider that it has “covered” Mr. Le Graët, despite the many reports that she would have received from collaborators concerning behavior inappropriate of the president towards them.

short-circuited director

Auditors paint the portrait of a DG which, “despite a considerable professional investment, is little interested in certain areas of the FFF (the specificities of the public service mission, amateur football, training for example) “. For many people interviewed, it would be “impermeable to the singularity of federal governance which relies on the respect of the role of elected officials, active volunteers, licensees”. According to the listeners, M me hardouin “struggles to get out of a personality which she recognizes herself a directive”.

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