Olympique de Genève strikes back! The amateur football club filed an appeal this Tuesday against the ban on using the Varembé pitches. The meeting with the Sports Department of the City of Geneva on Monday produced nothing. The club’s lawyer, Romain Jordan, was a guest of Béatrice Rul, at 7:30 a.m., on Radio Lac.
The Sports Department of the City of Geneva deprived the Geneva Olympic Games of land due to financial and governance problems. What came out of it?
“We finally knew the content of the analysis which had led to the decision that we received overnight, on November 21. We were surprised not to have had the opportunity to have this presentation before the decision is made you are told “we are closing you” and then a week later you are told “ah but come anyway, we will explain to you why”. knows there are 300 “kids” who from one day to the next were no longer able to train.”
“The City of Geneva is breaking the momentum of reorganization and takeover of the club”
What exactly does the city criticize the Olympique de Genève?
“It’s a fairly complicated story. There is a question of bookkeeping but that was taken care of by the new committee which was elected in October. Except that here, the City of Geneva is breaking the momentum of reorganization and takeover of the club which was progressing very well, there was a takeover of the various creditors by the new committee and then the City arrives with its big clogs and decides to close everything That there were operational problems in an association. with a volunteer committee, unfortunately these are things that arrive But what is important is that the association is aware of it and then takes the necessary measures to reorganize, to clean up the situation. In this case it was the case and then the city of Geneva without asking anything. whoever did their analysis in their own corner, without sharing it with the committee and then came to close by claiming that the decision applied immediately without even the possibility of appeal. It is not admissible to operate like this.
“It’s a little surprising that the City, even though it made an incredibly strong decision, today refuses to justify it”
After this meeting with the City, did it change its position?
The City seemed interested in certain explanations which have already clarified a good number of things. Afterwards, to be able to complete the exercise and give all the explanations, the City must give us its analysis. We just had a presentation on Monday. I asked for a copy of the presentation, I asked for a copy of the analysis, I still received nothing, I was refused, I was told that they were internal documents. It is a little surprising that the City, while it made an incredibly strong decision, today refuses to justify it, to give us the opportunity to clarify all the points that should be clarified. Precisely in accounting terms, in terms of operation, we do not know exactly the City’s grievances. We had a presentation yesterday which lasted around fifteen minutes, which was very interesting. There was a PowerPoint, we were given lots of standards, etc., which in my opinion do not apply to an association. It would have been interesting to have the content precisely, so that we could then sit around the table and provide answers. Obviously, the City does not want us to verify what it has done.”
“We are going to file an appeal today”
So nothing came of this meeting?
“We are going to file an appeal today so that the courts can note the fact that the decision does not apply immediately, and then obviously, we will ask for the protection of the judge. It is always unfortunate in these kinds of circumstances to have to to do so, but it is necessary for him to cancel the decision, because the association could not decide on the reproaches made to it, when it fell on it overnight But yesterday. I intervened several times to say that we do not have vocation to do procedure, especially in an area where there are 300 young football players who want to train, who have the image of the club, who sleep at night with their jerseys on, as a member of the committee said yesterday , there is an issue that goes further than inconveniences with auditing or accounting standards, etc. This morning I am relaunching the invitation to the Administrative Council and to Madame Barbey Chappuis who, surprisingly, was not there yesterday. evening, to sit around the table, put a plan in place, also take note of the efforts that have been made by the association committee for two months now, and then think further than just standards here or there, and go forward.”
Marie Barbey Chappuis, who is the administrative advisor in charge of sports, who made this decision, was not at this meeting on Monday.
“To see the city make a decision immediately applicable, falling a little by surprise on a club, to which we are saying overnight you are going to stop your activities, your juniors are going to be transferred to another club, is a surprising decision. Especially since Madame Barbey Chappuis would be a member of this other club, Interstar will therefore appoint a lawyer to manage this entire transfer and this has a cost. Couldn’t we do better, differently, by doing one. no side from this decision: no procedure, no appeal, no criticism here or there, no controversy, but building a solution for the 300 young people is once again, I hope, a solution that can prevail.
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