Michel Platini on the loose again

“He is no longer in custody,” said Platini’s lawyer William Bourdon on Wednesday night. According to him, there was “much ado about nothing.”

“Given the number of questions, it could only be long” Michel Platini Platini, who is banned from all football activities, is supposed to go AFP - said he appeared exhausted after leaving the police office in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre. “It was long, but given the number of questions it could only be long, as I was asked about the 2016 European Championships, the World Cup in Russia, the World Cup in Qatar and FIFA,” Platini himself is quoted as saying.

Bourdon had previously denied that Platini, who led UEFA from 2007 to 2015, was even arrested. Rather, he was questioned “as a witness”. “He has done absolutely nothing wrong and he reiterates that he has no connection whatsoever to the facts of the case in question, which are unknown to him,” the lawyer said in a statement on Tuesday. Focus on awarding the World Cup to Qatar Platini's arrest as part of the corruption investigation into the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar was reported on Tuesday. There is suspicion of “active and passive corruption,” reported AFP . The focus of the investigation is a meeting with then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, and Hamad Ben Jassem, then Prime Minister of Qatar, in November 2010. At that time, agreements are said to have been made regarding the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar be.

Platini's arrest marked the next dark point in the career of the 1984 European champion. In 2015, his dream of becoming president of the world association FIFA was shattered after he was banned due to a dubious payment of 1,8 million euros to him by FIFA. His suspension, later reduced from eight to four years, expires in October 2019.

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Michel Platini on the loose again

As the French news agency AFP reports, former UEFA president Michel Platini was released after several hours of questioning as part of a criminal investigation.

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