The National Investigation Service of the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression has just threatened Canal+ if it continued to broadcast the matches of a European team.
We don't joke with the DGCCRF, and the encrypted channel knows it. In a very tense climate between the authorities and the Bolloré group, the end of the C8 channel having been announced after a decision by ARCOM, the message sent by the authorities to Canal+ regarding the Champions League is very firm, and very clear. Indeed, during the evenings dedicated to the C1, C+ broadcasts the meetings of the Swiss club Young Boys from Bern. And this training is sponsored by a company for which advertising is prohibited in France. Morality, the General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression orders Canal+ to no longer broadcast the Swiss team's matches.
« The National Investigation Service of the General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression noted, as part of its investigations, that SA GROUPE CANAL+ has on several occasions broadcast legible advertising on players' jerseys of the Bern Young Boys football team during two competitions broadcast live and on the occasion of the posting online on the canalplus.com site of the highlights of these matches, for the sponsor “More 500”, offering investment services relating to risky financial contracts. These advertisements are prohibited by the consumer code. The DGCCRF therefore ordered SA GROUPE CANAL+ to cease these practices », Specifies, in a press release, the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. In the last two matches of the first phase of the Champions League, Young Boys must face Celtic on January 22, and Red Star Belgrade a week later. The good news for Canal+ is that the Bernese team is last with zero points, and will therefore not qualify for the rest of the Champions League.
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