The requisitions of the prosecution will not have been followed. The federal criminal court of Bellinzona (Switzerland) decided this Friday morning to acquit Michel Platini, 67, and the ex-president of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, 86. In mid-June, the prosecution had however requested against them respectively one year and eight months of suspended prison sentence. The two defendants have continued to proclaim their innocence, seeing in this case a political and judicial “plot” only intended to oust them from Fifa.
During the two weeks that the hearing lasted, their lawyers tried to point out the possible role played behind the scenes by Gianni Infantino, former right-hand man of Michel Platini at UEFA, then arrived – to everyone’s surprise – at the presidency. of Fifa at the beginning of 2016. The case in which they were involved, fueled by suspicions of fraud, had prevented Michel Platini from reaching the head of world football in 2015. And this, despite very ambitious fed. The scam pointed out consisted of a payment by Fifa of 2 million Swiss francs (the equivalent of 1.8 million euros) to the former captain of the Blues and triple Ballon d’Or.
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