After Michel Platini, Sepp Blatter. The fallen leaders of world football follow one another in the office of the Swiss federal prosecutor, Thomas Hildbrand. The day after the former UEFA president, interviewed on Monday August 31 in Bern for almost three hours, the former FIFA boss presented himself in turn on Tuesday September 1. Sepp Blatter, 84, was heard, like Michel Platini, in the context of the case of an alleged “unfair” payment of 2 million Swiss francs, paid in 2011 to the former number 10 of the Blues. “ This is the moment when we start talking about this file which has been going on for five years, and which I have never been asked questions about, so I am happy to be able to provide information on it. explained Sepp Blatter on Tuesday, getting out of his car to go to the federal prosecutor's office. Prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand will take a two-day break from hearings in the nearly 10-year-old case. Then on Friday September 4 he will receive two other players in the affair, the former secretary general of FIFA, Jérôme Valcke, and the former financial director of the body, Markus Kattner.
