The lawyer for the now ex-president of the French Football Federation, Thierry Marembert, spoke to the cameras of France 5 on Tuesday.
Conspiracy. The word is out. Guest of the show C à Vous on France 5, Me Thierry Marembert, lawyer for Noël Le Graët, did not say so. On the other hand, he acquiesced and validated this theory which states that the now ex-president of the French Football Federation (FFF) was the victim of a cabal to discredit him and push him to leave office, which he did. this Tuesday after several months of crisis. “His resignation was a necessity with the turbulence that this media atmosphere caused within the FFF. But he has nothing to reproach himself for but the report (of an audit commissioned by the Ministry of Sports) is empty and contains nothing against him“Launches the lawyer, affirming that the”inspectors summoned Mr. Le Graët at the beginning of February to tell him that they had found nothing against him» and regretting the appearance «miraculous” witness “out of the woods as part of a media plan announced by Madame Hardouin’s communicator“, the former general manager of the “3F”, in conflict with “NLG”.
Thierry Marembert believes that Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Sports since May 2022, has done “pressionon the inspectors, who haveadded punchlines to a report that is empty“. And to add:In her press conference and the summary report that was released to the press, she lied about the content of the report that was pressured. In the report, we find the following sentence: “We did not find any message, a vocabulary containing no term of a sexual nature”. The minister said this: “There are messages of a sexual nature”. It’s wrong. We are going to sue her for defamation and we are also going to ask for the cancellation of this report which has violated all the principles of independence and impartiality, adversarial proceedings, before the administrative judges.“, insists the lawyer.
Lies and punchlines
Why did Madame Oudéa-Castéra embark on this enterprise of destabilization according to him? “She is very strong in destruction, demolition, to make people leave. It deserves a thorough investigation“, judges Mr. Marembert, affirming that when”punchlines, lies are sold and taken up on social networks and certain media, the media pressure becomes unbearable for the federation, football, not for him, he could stay” at the head of the “Fédé”, evoking “conjunctions of interests and rivalriesto explain these attacks. THE “miraculous witnessmentioned earlier, it was Sonia Souid, players’ agent, who denounced the behavior of “NLG” on January 9 on BFM . «There are things she lies about, others not, and interpretations“, swears Me Marembert, promising that his client”tried to date her intellectually, not sexually“. He also denounced the changes of version of Florence Hardouin on the said messages.
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Still according to Me Thierry Marembert, the editorial director of So Footauthor of the investigation which set fire to the powder, apologized in January 2023 to Noël Le Graët, assuring that “The predatory side is false, nothing is criminal in our opinion“. On the other controversies, about racism in football, LGBT or Zinedine Zidane, “we distort his words, his thought. Do not isolate micro bits of sentences taken out of context and from a more general whole to draw lessons that do not have to be“Judges the lawyer. And to conclude:If people have felt badly about the remarks he may have made, and which are not sexual, of course, he is sorry. Everyone can have a different perception of the same thing…A priori, it is above all Mr. Le Graët who has his own perception on certain subjects.
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