2023-11-04 04:04:45
“Don’t hesitate to invite everyone present to the French team’s next match, it will be a pleasure to join you.” By uttering these few words as a conclusion after the long hearing of Didier Deschamps before the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the failure of sports federations, the president of this commission Béatrice Bellamy did not expect to create a controversy. However, this obviously friendly sentence caused a lot more talk, more than the content of the French team coach’s statements.
Béatrice Bellamy “did not lack sass”, we can read in Libération. The sequence “discredits the parliamentary commission of inquiry”, according to Le Figaro. But for the Horizons party MP, it’s a storm in a teacup.
Joined this Friday, she first wanted to recontextualize. “Didier Deschamps has arrived and it is always a little impressive to enter a committee of inquiry room with deputies, the press, a president and a rapporteur,” specifies the deputy. We discuss, we exchange, Didier Deschamps responds. I feel after an hour he really starts to relax and talk. And after an hour and a half, although the hearing was scheduled for an hour, I told him that it would have been interesting to be able to extend it for another half hour because I felt that the exchange was less restricted. And in a joking tone, really as a concluding joke, I ask him to invite all the colleagues present. »
“I hope the report will generate as much interest”
Béatrice Bellamy assures her, she was not asking for places from the Blues coach. “I did not beg for places, contrary to what I have read,” she assures. It was just a joke to soften the mood at the end of the commission. That’s all that happened, it’s nothing more than that. »
According to the president of the commission of inquiry, the controversy therefore has no reason to exist. “I would prefer that we have a controversy over the content of the hearings since 9 a.m.,” regrets the MP. The controversy is there, we have been working on a commission of inquiry which has its reasons for existence since July, with seriousness and efficiency, with long days, and we are making a nice and friendly little sentence an affair of state. This is a ridiculous controversy. And as I said on Twitter (Editor’s note: X), I hope the report will generate as much interest. »
One day, 6 hearings, 8 hours of discussions and background on serious subjects, 1h30 of questioning with D. Deschamps. And remember only the above all nice and friendly conclusion. We have seen less ridiculous controversies!
I hope the report will generate as much interest. https://t.co/EO5TMe1sYp— Beatrice Bellamy (@BeaBellamy85) November 3, 2023
“He has difficulty distinguishing between the citizen he is and his status as coach”
She admits, however, that this sentence, taken at face value, can be misinterpreted. “Perhaps these are remarks that are inappropriate if we interpret them at face value,” recognizes Béatrice Bellamy. But far be it from me to beg for places, that’s not at all what I meant, it was more the idea of getting together to continue to exchange. It was really the atmosphere that led to that. If you are interested in sport, you know that there is a frankness in sport, a sympathy that develops quickly. The credibility of this commission should certainly not be called into question. But this will not be the case, we will continue to work seriously. »
The hearings will also continue. After Didier Deschamps, it is Noël Le Graët, former president of the FFF, who will be heard by the commission of inquiry of the National Assembly on November 7. The opportunity for Béatrice Bellamy and the other deputies to clarify the gray areas left by the coach of the Blues, who was not able to express himself on all the subjects. “He has difficulty distinguishing between the citizen he is and his status as coach of the France team,” explains Béatrice Bellamy. As such, being an employee of the FFF, his comments are limited on the functioning or dysfunction of the FFF. He says it himself. »
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