Spectacular epilogue to the Noël Le Graët affair, known as “NLG”. According to information from World and of The teamthe Paris prosecutor’s office announced to the latter that it had taken the decision to dismiss, on October 17, the preliminary investigation opened in January 2023 for “moral and sexual harassment” against the former president of the French Football Federation (FFF). At the end of the investigations, no crime seems serious enough.
The brigade for the repression of crime against the person, after listening to around thirty people, interviewed Mr. Le Graët on January 26, 2024. “It’s a great relief. There’s still a little bit of anger that remains deep inside me, entrust the latter to World. I’m not at the forgiveness stage, but I’m happy to have come out of this matter with my head held high and to have restored some of my honor towards my family. »
At the head of the FFF since 2011, Le Graët had to resign in February 2023, under media and political pressure, at the end of a reign of almost twelve years, marked by indisputable sporting and economic successes. “I didn’t deserve this exit. I should have finished my term in December. [2024] and go out the front door.”he laments.
It was noted by an audit report from the General Inspection of Education, Sports and Research (IGESR). The inspectors reported a “very centralized exercise of power”, his “inappropriate behavior” “towards women”TO “Inappropriate and offensive character accentuated by excessive alcohol consumption.”
In a context of political confrontation between Le Graët and the sponsor of the inspection mission, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, then Minister of Sports, the judicialization of the case began, on January 13, 2023, through a report made public. prosecutor, under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure, by the president of the IGSR, Caroline Pascal.
The latter has since acknowledged before the World that his report arose from the content “from the last mission audiences held in the previous days.” On January 10, 2023, the Director General (DG) of the FFF, Florence Hardouin, was heard and reported to the IGSR for alleged acts of sexual and moral harassment that, according to her, she had suffered from Noël Le Graët.
“An objective alliance against me”
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