first resignation from the Comex, with the departure of Jamel Sandjak, president of the Paris-Île-de-France League

While he is still, at least temporarily, president of the “3F”, Noël Le Graët is let go by a first member of his “government”. “Elected to participate in a collective project, today I can only observe our powerlessness to project ourselves towards the challenges of tomorrow”explains Jamel Sandjak in a press release sent to AFP on Thursday, December 23. “Faithful to the principles and values ​​that have forged my commitments (…) I have decided today to submit my resignation from the executive committee”.

The boss of one of the most powerful leagues in France, former opponent of Noël Le Graët, whom he finally joined during the last FFF election in 2021, also believes that he has “could, on many occasions, provide a contradictory, fertile and unfortunately sometimes minority reading on major sporting or social subjects”.

He is the first member of the Comex of the “3F” to submit his resignation, after the submission in mid-February of the audit report of the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research (IGESR), which pointed to the management of Le Graët, believing that the latter “no longer has the necessary legitimacy to administer and represent French football” and pinning his “inappropriate behavior (…) vis-à-vis women.”

Waiting for the February 28 meeting

Pushed to resign by some relatives and called by the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to take the “good decisions” on his future, Le Graët continues to deny all accusations of moral and sexual harassment made to him, condemning an audit “glazed with subjectivity”, according to the observations of his lawyers. Since mid-January, he has been under investigation for moral and sexual harassment.

A meeting of the Comex, Tuesday morning, must draw the conclusions from the audit report to the FFF, in the presence of Le Graët. One of the options, if the Breton leader does not resign on his own, is to see his executive committee resign collectively. This would require seven of its 14 members to resign, which would lead to the departure of Le Graët and the holding of new elections.