TESTIMONY – Patrice Croquet, who resigned from the Steering Committee, comes out of silence to demand recognition from the president of the FFR for this 13-year-old child, who died at the end of May during a rugby camp. Supporting documents, he points out what he considers to be a “scandalous lack of respect”.
On the other end of the line, Patrice Croquet is not angry. Repeat be “disgusted, disgusted”. He is one of the sixteen members of the opposition who resigned from the FFR Steering Committee at the beginning of the week. For some, a political maneuver less than three weeks before the elections for the presidency of the Federation. For this elected official from Brittany, after having long been a representative of Polynesia, a sincere cry from the heart.
The revelation by his camp, at the beginning of the week, of the death of a young graduate from Futuna revolted him. After a few days of silence, he decided to speak out. “I was elected under the mandate of Bernard Laporte, but I am not at all a politician. I am a pure product of the field, I have more than 50 years of bachelor’s degree and I lived fifteen years in the Pacific. I am still very close to the people of Wallis and Futuna. There, two boys adopted me as their father after theirs died. It was my Futunian sons who pushed me to speak. It gave us…
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