- Title: Blatter and Platini arrive at court for verdict in corruption case
- Date: 25th March 2025
- Summary: MUTTENZ, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 25, 2025) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (French) FORMER UEFA PRESIDENT, MICHEL PLATINI, SAYING AS HE WALKS TOWARDS THE COURT ENTRANCE: “How are you?” JOURNALIST ASKING (French): “We should ask how are you?” PLATINI (French): “We will see.” JOURNALIST ASKING (French): “Are you confident?” PLATINI (French): “I don’t know. There are a lot of people today!”
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- Keywords: Blatter FIFA Michel Platini Platini Sepp Blatter corruption football soccer trial verdict
- Location: MUTTENZ, SWITZERLAND
- City: MUTTENZ, SWITZERLAND
- Country: Switzerland
- Topics: Europe,Soccer,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA001146325032025RP1
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- Story Text: Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini arrived at a Swiss court on Tuesday (March 25) to hear whether the case that finished their careers in soccer will end with their acquittals or convictions for corruption.
Both appeared relaxed and confident as they entered the building and not too long later it was announced Blatter and Platini were both cleared, 2-1/2 years after they were first acquitted of the offences.
The pair, once among the most powerful figures in global football, were cleared of fraud mismanagement at the Extraordinary Appeals Chamber of the Swiss Criminal Court in the town of Muttenz, near Basel.
The hearing came about after Swiss federal prosecutors appealed against their 2022 acquittal at a lower court. Both men had denied the charges which related to a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.26 million) payment made to Platini in 2011.
($1 = 0.8837 Swiss francs)
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