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Laporte claims it’s all a plot to oust him

JAMES HARRINGTON

FRENCH COLUMN
Even French rugby –which is used to metaphorical blood staining symbolic carpets in allegorical boardrooms by the imaginary quart, or its faux-metric equivalent – has rarely, if ever, seen a week like this.
And it couldn’t have come at a worse time for FFR president Bernard Laporte. He, his right-hand man Serge Simon, Montpellier’s billionaire owner Mohed Altrad, 2023 World Cup organising committee head honcho Claude Atcher, and the FFR’s international relations chief Nicolas Hourquet, were taken into custody on Tuesday morning,...

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