A investigation dealing with match-fixing attempts in D1 Arkema, the elite of women’s football, was opened and three players from La Paillade were auditioned, last week, by the Central Service of Races and Games (SCCJ). This is what reveals, this Thursday, the newspaper L’Equipe. The three women, whose identities were not disclosed, received a private message on their Instagram account, at the start of the season, in which a mysterious corruptor offered them several tens of thousands of euros to ease off and rig a match championship.
The first immediately alerted its leaders, indicates Laurent Nicollin, president of the MHSC, to our colleagues. The latter then warned the entire locker room, and it was at this point that two teammates would have noticed that they had been recipients of the same message. The FFF filed a complaint against X, while the Uefa, Europol – the European agency specializing in the suppression of crime – as well as the national authorities of the countries concerned, are mobilized.
Footballers in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium would have been the target of the same process, on their social networks. The manipulator proposed remuneration in cryptocurrency (digital currency).