Thick air on the FIFA process in Muttenz BL

« Hair -raised, » «  » Infame « , » Result -oriented distortion of the facts « , » Memorial « , » Free invention « , » Free invention « : In his plea, the Sepp Blatter's lawyer Lorenz Erni countered the explanations of the federal prosecutor from the previous day. He again demanded acquittal across the board for Blatter.

As a pure mood, Erni felt that the federal prosecutor of the federal government had a French article full of allegations on Blatter on the files, but then no longer discussed it in the plea.

Charged mood in the mutate

The air at the special court in Muttenz BL was fat after the federal prosecutor of the federal government, Thomas Hildbrand, 69, in the last plea in his career with the big club had been fetched to an all -round.

Erni gave back, Hildbrand shows « a desperate effort to assume a criminal offense to my client ». He spoke of « insolent » and « outrageous », sometimes « honorable » claim and twisting of the prosecutor. Its explanations were often wrong and contrary to the file and far away from an « impartial assessment of evidence ».

Either way, according to Erni: The Federal Prosecutor's office was unable to provide any evidence that in 1998 there was no oral agreement on an annual salary of one million for Platini. The Federal Prosecutor's Office could not even present a motive for the alleged fraud. But it is precisely this evidence that Hildbrand would have to present to achieve a guilty verdict.

On the contrary, various witnesses show that the million for Platini, for example, was a topic for Platini in 1998, for example, only the federal prosecutor did not want to admit this. « It is a mystery to me why the public prosecutor's fibbing this chimera, » said Erni.

Platinis lawyer in doubt whole procedures

Dominic Nellen, the defender of the French football idol Michel Platini, came into the same horn in the afternoon. He also stated that everything spoke for an oral contract that not a single witness said that there was no such contract. That the first instance court had examined this in great detail by numerous interrogations and came to the conclusion that « PlatiS advisory activity » was regulated by a written contract from 1999 and, « contrary to the prosecution, also by an oral agreement ».

Nellen also stated that the federal prosecutor could not have a motive for the alleged fraud. In the absence of fraud, the all -important question is but another anyway. She reads: « Who has a motive for the present criminal proceedings? » The motive was « only » to prevent Michel Platini as President of FIFA.  » The payment was deliberately criminalized in order to eliminate the French favorites for the Blatter's succession.

In September 2015, the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office had opened a criminal proceedings against Blatter because of the two million under the later Michael Lauber. In the Media release She named Michel Platini, especially as a recipient of the supposedly « faithful payment ». A little later both were blocked by FIFA, the path was free for the controversial Gianni Infantino on the FIFA throne.

Profiter from Platini-Out was Infantino

This plot theory, which prosecutor Hildbrand referred to the realm of fairy tales in his plea the day before, has never been refuted. Nellen stated that on the contrary, new elements have appeared that they underpin: They showed that the federal prosecutor took FIFA files to the opening of the procedure that were still sealed at the time. The witness Olivier Thormann, now a judge and then leading public prosecutor, confirmed this. In any case, it is clear to Nelle: the whole process is corrupted, the information obtained in this way is incompatible.

An expression of this opaque procedure is also the fact that an extraordinary dish had to be used. Because the Federal Supreme Court had declared biased the legally responsible appeal chamber at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. Reason: Chamber President Olivier Thormann was who, as the federal prosecutor of the federal prosecutor, had opened the controversial criminal proceedings against Blatter 2015.

Nellen also considers that the fact that prosecutor Hiltbrand gave a newspaper article on the files directed against Blatter for the files, and only after the admissions of the accused, and then did not go into it. The procedure is « faithful and believed, » he said.

Platini shows itself as the victim of an intrigue

Platini himself is convinced, this is also evident this week on the edge of the process that he was victim of an intrigue with the help of the federal prosecutor that he was « killed ».

Like Erni, Nelle confirms the first instance judgment and comprehensive acquittal for his client. The extraordinary Chamber of Appeals in Muttenz BL plans to announce its judgment on March 25th.

The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona had acquitted Blatter and Platini three years ago. FIFA's payment made in 2011 over two million francs for previous advisory activity Platis was therefore right. because years earlier agreed.