2024-10-21 12:40:00
Former sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra will be tried at the beginning of December before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) for defamation against Noël Le Graët, former president of the French Football Federation (FFF), we have learned. learned, Monday October 21, from a judicial source.
The trial is scheduled for December 3 and 4, according to this source which confirmed information from West France. She will be judged for public defamation against an individual by the judgment panel of the CJR, the only court authorized to judge ministers for acts committed in the exercise of their functions.
This trial follows a complaint filed on April 24, 2023 by Mr. Le Graët for comments made on February 15 and March 5 of the same year by the former Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
After eleven years of reign, Noël Le Graët resigned from the FFF with a bang in February 2023, after a damning audit report from the general inspection of education, sport and research (IGESR), against a backdrop of accusations of sexual harassment.
The IGESR inspectors considered that Mr. Le Graët “do not have[ait] more of the legitimacy necessary to administer and represent French football”taking into account in particular its “inappropriate behavior (…) towards women”.
“Words” and text messages
A few hours after the departure of Mr. Le Graët, his lawyer, Me Thierry Marembert, announced the filing of a complaint, affirming that Mme Oudéa-Castéra had “save” about this report and highlighting a difference between the summary of the document, published on February 15 which mentioned ” words “ and text messages, “words or writings that are ambiguous for some and of a clearly sexual nature for others”and its entirety. This report has not been made public.
“The words for which [M. Le Graët] implicates Mme Amélie Oudéa-Castéra only consisted of reporting the conclusions of this report in her press conference of February 15, 2023 as well as in a subsequent public expression”had argued in July the entourage of Mme Oudéa-Castéra, who left his position as minister in September.
The procedure in matters of press law usually makes it almost automatic, after a defamation complaint, the referral to an investigating judge and the indictment of the author of the remarks, the substantive debate taking place at the audience. The case law is slightly different before the CJR, whose requests commission can assess the follow-up to be given to the complaints it receives.
On at least three occasions, notably last February for a complaint by footballer Karim Benzema against the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, this requests committee dismissed certain complaints, considering that the offense of defamation was not sufficiently characterized.
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