The president of the French Football Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët “no longer has the necessary legitimacy to administer” French football, taking into account in particular “his behavior towards women”, pinpoints the provisional report of the mission on Monday. audit on the FFF, of which AFP obtained a copy.

This interim report from the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research (IGESR), commissioned by the Ministry of Sports last fall, also notes that the authority’s policy on gender-based violence and sexual relations is “neither effective nor efficient”. The leaders of the FFF have until February 13 to take note of these conclusions and respond to them before publication of the final and contradictory report.

“The mission considers that, given his behavior towards women, his public statements and the failures of the governance of the FFF, Mr. Le Graët no longer has the necessary legitimacy to administer and represent French football”, perhaps we read.

Withdrawn since January 11, and targeted by an investigation for moral and sexual harassment, Noël Le Graët (81 years old) is not spared by this pre-report. His attitude towards women “can at the very least be described as sexist”, say the inspectors. The mission also collected testimonies relating to the actions of the Breton leader “likely to receive a criminal qualification”.

The inspectors, who made a report to the Paris public prosecutor on January 13, indicated that they would send additional information to the courts. It is on the basis of this report that the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation in mid-January.

Laid off as a precautionary measure on January 11, the director general of the FFF, Florence Hardouin, is also targeted by IGESR inspectors for her management which, they write, “can be described as brutal”, but not “harassing”.

His relations with Le Graët are described as “toxic”: “The chairman-director general couple has reached its limits”, believe the auditors of the IGESR, evoking “clan logics” of management and a “very self-centered vision of the power “. The mission, which offers 18 recommendations to the FFF, also pinpoints the body’s policy on preventing and combating gender-based and sexual violence, which “is not a priority rationally deployed by the FFF in the territories” , according to her.

Severely shaken for five months by journalistic investigations, testimonies from women accusing him of sexist and inappropriate behavior, or by his own sweeping statements about Zinédine Zidane, Noël Le Graët is going through the most delicate period of his mandate. started in 2011. The FFF “will not communicate its own conclusions and decisions after the delivery of the final audit commissioned by the Ministry of Sports”, reacted the body in a press release.