Michel Platini got emotional.

Shortly after Joseph Blatter had vehemently denied the allegations in the joint process, the accused former UEFA boss leaned forward in his gray chair.

“What FIFA did to their president and me is a scandal.

I was called an account forger and money launderer," said the 66-year-old Frenchman.

"The aim was for everyone to know that I shouldn't become FIFA President.

There is justice in life and I hope it comes out.”

On the second day of the trial before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, the two former top football officials were questioned for the first time.

They complained about media prejudice and the handling of the world association with them.

"I will not answer questions from FIFA because the FIFA President has never answered me since March 2016," Blatter replied, referring to Gianni Infantino, a FIFA representative who is a private prosecutor in the case.

At the core of the allegation of fraud is a payment by FIFA of two million Swiss francs to the former Blatter advisor Platini in 2011. According to the indictment, Blatter is said to have unlawfully confirmed this plus social security contributions.

"It's an owed late payment of wages," Blatter said.

This went through all the necessary committees at the world association.

After his election as FIFA boss in 1998, he agreed to work with Platini, Blatter reported.

He said to him: "I'm worth a million." In what currency?

"I told him for fun, pesetas, rubles or marks, you have to decide that," reported Platini.

A contract backdated to the beginning of the year was agreed in August 1999, but only for a salary of 300,000 Swiss francs.

When Platini pointed out that this was not the entire agreed sum, he said: "We'll see about that later," Blatter recalled.

In 2011, Platini billed FIFA for the sum.

Why so late?

"It wasn't vital for me," Platini said of the payment.

Why 800,000 francs less than agreed?

"That's me," the former European champion replied with a laugh.

"I was wrong."

Platini sat in the second row with his arms crossed as Blatter testified.

A day after the 86-year-old's interrogation was postponed due to health problems, he kept running his hands across the table as he spoke.

The first questioning by a public prosecutor in 2015 about the allegations shocked him, Blatter recalled.

"This shock has now lasted seven years, this shock is still there." At that time he had already received the "maximum sentence" and was "outlawed" in the world.

"The media have given me a criminal record," Blatter said.

When the payment became public seven years ago, Platini's ambitions to succeed Blatter were gone.

"In 2015 I happen to be a candidate for FIFA," said the Frenchman.

"It's incredible that it's coming up at this point." Platini was replaced by former UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino as FIFA's new boss in 2016.

The questioning of the former public prosecutor at the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, Olivier Thormann, was intended to clarify, among other things, where the investigators found out about the two million payment.

Thormann stated that the information was obtained from then FIFA Chief Financial Officer Markus Kattner during a search at FIFA in the wake of the 2015 scandal, along with the wage statements of the then Executive Committee.

Further testimonies are planned for Friday, the third of eleven days of the hearing.

A verdict is expected on July 8.