Noël Le Graët, 82 years old, comes out of silence. Sunday November 3, the former president of the French Football Federation (FFF), who resigned in February 2023, reacted to the Monde to the dismissal, on October 17, of the preliminary investigation opened in January 2023 by the Paris prosecutor's office for “moral and sexual harassment”.
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What is the reason for the classification?
The reason is clear: the file is empty, the investigation revealed no sexual or moral harassment on my part. This is the best I could have expected. Why was there a criminal case? The wait is long. I have been in poor health since last spring.
No one accused me, no one filed a complaint against me. I got the decision ten months after my hearing. I would have preferred to have it before.
What does this ranking mean to you?
It is a relief for my wife, my three daughters and my nine grandchildren. My family was very united, my two lawyers [Florence Bourg et Thierry Marembert] Also. People may always ask themselves: “There is no smoke without fire. » You are in a limbo, a drunken boat.
On January 13, 2023, the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research issued a report to the public prosecutor's office against you as part of the audit commissioned from the FFF by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
In January 2023 [juste avant le signalement]I saw the chief of inspectors. He told me “this file is cat pee, you can go on vacation”. I almost want to thank the minister for having made this article 40 [du code de procédure pénale].
This classification of justice calls into question the report of the administrative investigation which was carried out in a biased manner and under political pressure. If there had not been this criminal investigation, only the inspection report would have remained. I supposedly sent sexual messages to the entire world. They found none. I never sent one. I was caught in turmoil. There was a desire to do harm: to decapitate the boss of the FFF.
Mme Did Oudéa-Castéra want your head?
She did what she thought she had to do. It's so unfair. You can't mix everything. She didn't realize that this could ruin a family. She could reproach me. I didn't like him very much and it showed very clearly. But from there to setting up a cabal of this kind. You really have to want to free someone.
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