Mohed Altrad, Montpellier Rugby boss.

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Pascal GUYOT / AFP

Placed in police custody on the same basis as the four members of the French Rugby Federation, the boss of the MHR Mohed Altrad came out free on Wednesday while waiting for the National Financial Prosecutor's Office to decide on the follow-up to be given to this case.

Until then, his lawyer, Me Antoine Vey, gave a few words to our colleagues from

L'Equipe in

order to denounce the conditions in which his client was in custody.

“My client is 71 years old and he spent the day in a cell where you, if you spent two hours there, you would find it inhuman.

The investigators are very courteous, accommodating, sympathetic but there is an institutional brutality which is scandalous ”, plague Me Vey.

"He got caught up in a two-ball game"

“They don't have to sleep in a jail with guys next door yelling at them.

He

(Altrad)

didn't sleep all night.

The light in the mouth at 11:30 p.m. to ask you questions when you've been there since the morning, that doesn't make sense.

The custody measure in this case is hijacked, because it has only one objective: media coverage.

We are at the limit of humanity, ”he continues, furious.

As for what is reproached to his client, Antoine Vey ensures that he does not fully understand.

On the other hand, he seems to dissociate Mohed Altrad from the actions of Bernard Laporte and others.

“To make a corruption pact, you need the precedence of the promise.

Given his career, I don't think Altrad has any interest in bribing Bernard Laporte.

He went there [to sponsor the FFR via a jersey ad] out of passion, perhaps out of vanity, he got a little entangled in two-ball deals with each other, because a sports federation does not is not managed like a CAC 40 company. ”One would be very curious to know the nature of his“ two-ball tricks ”.

Justice also a priori.

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