He must return his weapon and his badge, but is not about to hang up his crampons. After twenty-one years of service, mainly dedicated to the French Football Federation (FFF), where he was seconded as a liaison and security officer, police commander “Momo”, as the players nickname him, was notified on December 19 of his early retirement, we learned. The World.
At the origin of this decision: the receipt of a check from Kylian Mbappé, six months after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. “Everything was done in compliance with the rules, but also in the spirit of the law”assured the entourage of the Real Madrid striker. His tax lawyers assured him that this “gift of use” did not need to be declared. But the police hierarchy nonetheless saw it as a breach of ethics.
If the sanction is heavy and rare, the now ex-CRS did not wait to prepare for what comes next. According to our information, “Momo” exercised his retirement rights on December 31 – the date on which his secondment agreement for the Blues ended, renewed since 2011 – before signing a fixed-term contract with the FFF until the end of July 2026.
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