Bernard Laporte, Vincent Labrune or even Jean-Pierre Siutat. The program for the last week of hearings before the parliamentary commission of inquiry promises to be busy. However, according to our information, Karim Benzema will not appear before the deputies.
On September 8, Le Parisien indicated that the Al-Ittihad attacker (35 years old) had declined a summons through his lawyers, on the grounds that he resides abroad. However, he could not avoid it, given that these summons are not optional: any French citizen, even residing abroad, is required to respond to them under penalty of prosecution, as provided for in article 6 of Ordinance No. 58-1100 of November 17, 1958.
According to our information, the members of the commission did not insist on the former French international (97 caps, 37 goals) because the number of football players interviewed was already significant compared to other sports.
Vincent Labrune will be auditioned on Wednesday
As a reminder, passed in front of Béatrice Bellamy (Horizons) and Sabrina Sebaihi (Ecologiste-Nupes), respectively president and rapporteur of the commission, the 1998 world and 2000 European champions Laurent Blanc, Didier Deschamps, Patrick Vieira and Lilian Thuram, the former president of the FFF Noël Le Graët and his former CEO Florence Hardouin, their successors Philippe Diallo and Jean-François Vilotte, Jean Lapeyre, the legal director of the FFF, Éric Borghini, member of the Comex, Brigitte Henriques, former vice-president president, as well as Julien Pontes, spokesperson for the Rouge Direct collective, Ouissem Belgacem, former footballer and writer, and Yoann Lemaire, president of the Foot Ensemble association.
The hearings were supposed to end this week, but they were postponed by a week due to a trip by the rapporteur Sabrina Sebaihi. According to our information, they will take place Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, as well as Thursday morning. Former president of the FFR Bernard Laporte will be heard on Tuesday, like Gilles Sezionale, president of the French Swimming Federation. The latter postponed his hearing three times. The president of the FFBB Jean-Pierre Siutat, the president of the Equestrian Federation Serge Lecomte, as well as Vincent Labrune, the president of the LFP, will appear before the deputies on Wednesday. Those for Thursday have not yet been finalized.
