After the revelations, the first decisions. Targeted by a newspaper investigation The Team concerning his managerial practices and the atmosphere within the structure, then by an investigation by the labor inspectorate, the boss of the organization of the 2023 Rugby World Cup is more than ever in turmoil. Claude Atcher, Managing Director of the France 2023 Public Interest Group, is “lay off as a precaution”, announced the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Monday, August 29. The penalty will last”for the time needed to close the investigation“said the minister.
A little over a year from the event, the ethics committee of GIP France 2023 denounces “alarming managerial practices altering the functioning of the structure and the state of suffering of a certain number of collaborators“. On June 22, The Team recounted at length the pressures suffered by the staff of France 2023, the ministry evoking in the wake of having become aware “elements of concern“.
“Atcher will no longer be present or active, directly or indirectly, within, in the name and on behalf of the GIP during the period of layoff“, says the Ministry of Sports in a press release. An exceptional Board of Directors will meet on Friday to “validate that the missions of the general manager will be carried out by Mr. Julien Collette, deputy general manager of the GIP”.
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A second investigation was opened for VTC costs, also revealed by The Team while the leader had a company vehicle.
Atcher will, in the coming days, be in court, since he must appear – just like Bernard Laporte and Serge Simon, president and vice-president of the FFR as well as Mohed Altrad, main financial partner of the XV of France – before the Court. correctional center of Paris for three financial crimes: “concealment of breach of trust”, “abuse of corporate assets” and “concealed work by concealment of activity”.