The pressure is increasing on Bernard Laporte. Sentenced on Tuesday to a two-year suspended prison sentence, a fine of 75,000 euros and a two-year ban on exercising any function in rugby for acts of corruption and influence peddling, the president of the FFR made call, which allows him, technically, to remain in office.
But after calls for his resignation and the holding of new elections from the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, and the National Rugby League, a very important notice fell this Friday morning.
According to our information, the FFR’s ethics committee asked Bernard Laporte to “stand aside” in a notification addressed to the principal concerned. This is an injunction procedure, the most restrictive level of decisions that this independent committee can make. Clearly, if Bernard Laporte does not submit to this injunction, the ethics committee, composed of seven members, has the power to seize a disciplinary committee of the FFR.
The notification of the ethics committee was sent in copy to the Minister of Sports and to the secretary general of the FFR.