"I can guarantee you that Bernard Laporte is in the right place," says the former president of RC Toulon, guest of the program "Face aux auditeurs" on Europe 1. The president of the French Rugby Federation, candidate for his re-election, "has had many opportunities to offer me things that are not honest," he adds. "He never did."

Between Bernard Laporte, current president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR) and candidate for his re-election, and Florian Grill, president of the Île-de-France League who will appear in front of him in the fall, Mourad Boudjellal made his choice. "I support Bernard Laporte because I know him," he said in the program Face aux auditeurs , on Europe 1. "He is someone who wants to advance French rugby."

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"Five years of happiness" at the RCT

Mourad Boudjellal claims, however, to have looked into the candidacy of Florian Grill. "I read a lot of what he said. But the people who build a program saying only: 'this is not good, this is not good, this is not good', I'm not interested. I want people to explain to me what to do, not what not to do, "he said. "The best film critic has never made a great film. It's just a film critic for me, and Bernard Laporte is a filmmaker, he makes films."

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Bernard Laporte, I had five years at the Rugby club in Toulon, it was five years of happiness

For the former president of RC Toulon, Bernard Laporte is therefore "in the right place", despite the case of the alleged pressures he would have exerted in 2017, to help the owner of the Montpellier club - chaired by Mohed Altrad , with whom he was in business. Mourad Boudjellal thus returns to a call made by Bernard Laporte to Jean-Bernard Simonet, president of the FFR appeal committee, to modify a decision unfavorable in Montpellier: "Yes, I think he called Simonet, but without realizing that he was president of the Federation, saying to himself: 'well come on, this affair breaks our candy, we fix it and we go on to something else'. "

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"I know him and I find that everything that is said about him is false," sums up Mourad Boudjellal. "I had him five years at the Rugby club in Toulon (as a manager, editor's note ), it was five years of happiness. He has had many opportunities to offer me things that are not honest. never done. He never said to me, 'I would like to be paid offshore, could you fix that for me'. "