Former French Football Association (FIFA) president Michel Platini considered that the Swiss Jani Infantino should "give up his mandate" at the head of the International Federation (FIFA), due to suspicions of his complicity with the judiciary.
Platini said in an interview with the Swiss newspaper "Lillustry" published on Wednesday that Infantino and Swiss Attorney General Michael Looper "believe that they cannot be harmed and that they are above the law."
And press reports recently reported that Infantino and Loeper had held a series of informal meetings, which raised suspicions about the Swiss judiciary's handling of football-related files and possible collusion with the International Federation.
Platini was a strong candidate to succeed Joseph Blatter as FIFA president, before being suspended between 2015 and 2019 from engaging in any activity related to the game, against the backdrop of an unjustified payment of two million Swiss francs received from Blatter during his presidency of FIFA.
The latter was also punished with a six-year suspension in the same case, and he was the most prominent name brought up by corruption cases that have afflicted the International Federation since 2015.
Infantino was elected president of FIFA in early 2016, and he was re-elected in 2019 by acclamation for a second term of four years at the head of the organization that takes from The Swiss city of Zurich is its headquarters.
Infantino was previously Secretary-General of Loiva during the Platini era.
"I think Looper knows he has crossed the red lines," said the former French international. "As for my opinion, Infantino should give up his mandate."
"The problem, however, is that he has become FIFA president thanks to a skillful mixture of circumstances, in an opportunistic way, without having any legitimacy. So he will do everything in his power to hold on to his position," he added.
"The fact that I was a victim of a conspiracy was clear to me ... In 2016, I should have won the FIFA presidency by an overwhelming majority, everyone knows that. Jane Infantino seemed to have worked skillfully at the beginning of the summer of 2015, to exclude me from the race for the FIFA presidency, thanks to settlements that took place. behind the scenes".
The publication of the interview comes on the day during which the Judicial Committee of the Swiss Federal Assembly (Parliament) is due to issue its recommendation regarding the start of procedures that might lead to the isolation of Loeber after the criticisms against him against the background of his administration to investigate FIFA.

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