Florence Hardouin, former director general of the French Football Federation (FFF), filed a complaint for moral and sexual harassment against her mentor, the resigned president of the organization Noël Le Graët.
As revealed on Thursday by the newspaper Le Monde, Hardouin also opposed his dismissal from the FFF and is demanding compensation of more than $2.5 million dollars.
The complaint came after the former number 2 of the FFF was questioned on the 18th by the police investigators who deal with the case on alleged abuse by Le Graët.
The interrogations will continue in the coming weeks, so new complaints are not ruled out.
Hardouin was removed from her post on January 11, a day after she stated, before the internal inspection ordered by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, that she had suffered harassment.
During that interrogation, he accused Le Graët of “humiliating and sexist insults, inappropriate and intimidating behavior often linked to excessive alcoholism”, in addition to “invites to dinner out of place and repeated questions about his intimate and private life”.
The general director assured that she was not the only victim of the president of the FFF, who has always denied these accusations.
Hired by the FFF since 2008, on February 24 she was notified of her dismissal, which she is now taking to the labor courts, considering that there are various irregularities.
For this reason, she requests $670,000 dollars as compensation for her dismissal, a similar sum for the harassment and the same amount for not having been protected.
Added to this is another $660,000 for not being able to renew his term on the UEFA Executive Committee and a further $21,000 for legal costs, totaling more than $2.5 million.
Le Graët, who initially withdrew from the presidency of the FFF, ended up resigning on February 28 under pressure from the Minister of Sports due to various accusations of sexual and labor harassment.
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