Bernard Laporte, what else?

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It has become a habit lately as an accompaniment to coffee: since the start of the Marcoussis "Clustergate", not a day goes by without learning a good one about the way the federation has managed what it is. It is absolutely no longer appropriate today to call a sanitary bubble but rather a colander.

Tuesday, it is again our colleagues from

L'Equipe

who offer us the little candy of the day, with this anecdote on Bernard Laporte's trip to Italy on February 5, on the occasion of the second match of the XV of France in the VI Nations tournament, via a commercial airliner.

However, according to Serge Simon, the Mister Covid-19 of the XV of France, promised-sworn-spat the French delegation would only travel "on private flights" in order to

to protect the sanitary bubble.

This was also one of the conditions formulated by the Interministerial Crisis Unit (CIC), dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, for the Blues matches to take place.

The little cafe at the airport with ordinary tourists

Also according to

L'Equipe

du jour, before taking off Bernard Laporte would even have taken the time to sip a little coffee with some of the passengers of the commercial flight in question.

And this even though the Six Nations health protocol invites those affected by the bubble to avoid public places at all costs.

A bad joke, we tell you… This trip outside the bubble of the president of the FFR could have remained anecdotal if he had stayed well away from the France group on his arrival in Rome, which was not the case. case.

Indeed, we saw him point the flower with a gun at the edge of the field of the Olympic Stadium, without a mask, during the warm-up of the XV of France.

And if the federation has assured that its president had been tested twice in the 72 hours preceding the meeting, it gave no explanation as to this alternative route taken by Bernard Laporte and which contravened the health rules of the tournament .

We will see if it is mentioned in the report of the internal investigation conducted by the FFR and whose conclusions are expected this Tuesday evening.

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