The fate of Noël Le Graët, the former president of the FFF, set back after his media release on the airwaves of RMC in early January, seems sealed. While the three inspectors of the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research (IGESR), in charge of the audit of the French Football Federation must submit their final conclusions to the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa -Castéra, next February 15, the investigation unit of Radio France publishes this Friday the details of the charges against the former mayor of Guingamp and boss of French football.
An explicit request to a young woman to put on a skirt to travel; caresses on the thigh of another, not consenting, during a trip; the explicit proposal of a “threesome” during a dinner with two collaborators; sending a voice message saying “I’m on my third bottle (…); I expect you for the fourth. These are all facts that emerged from the hearings by the investigators of the 103 people, including employees and former employees of the FFF.
The whole thing being often linked to an obvious state of drunkenness, to the point that the employees of the FF had, according to the investigators, a “coded formula” to know if the boss was drunk by asking “Has the President had a lunch ? “. “These actions may have undermined the dignity of the victims through vulgar remarks, in particular when Mr. Le Graët shows tangible signs that he is under the influence of alcohol”, points out the final report.
Le Graët before the Disciplinary Committee?
Pending February 15, the lawyers of Noël Le Graët, who received the interim report on January 30, have until Monday to submit their observations to the inspectors. If they have already mentioned “a report that looks like an indictment” of their press release, justice, seized through the Paris prosecutor’s office, has already opened an investigation on January 16 against NLG for “harassment moral and sexual”, following the report issued by the IGESR.
It now remains to know the answer of the Costarmorican. If he were to resign on his own, which would suit everyone, from the Comex of the FFF to the Ministry of Sports, Le Graët would avoid a crisis in the crisis at the federal level. But if he chose to cling to it, which cannot be excluded knowing the stubborn political animal that he is, he could then be brought before a disciplinary body of the Federation and lead to a humiliating radiation . In either case, the hours of the Menhir Guingampais are counted.