The coach of the France team football, Didier Deschamps, filed a complaint with the Paris court, Wednesday, March 29, for defamation against the journalist and columnist of RMC Daniel Riolo, we learned the next day. He accuses the latter of having made defamatory remarks against him in the program After Foot, in particular around the announcement of the extension of his contract until 2026, at the beginning of January.
"Deschamps lied to us from A to Z, but lying is something he handles perfectly," Daniel Riolo said on the air, for example. on the management of Karim Benzema during the 2022 World Cup. “If you were a small player and just a water carrier, nobody can do anything about it. Be content with what you have had without pouring out hatred on others, ”he had again insulted him.
“Didier Deschamps has no problem with criticism, even acerbic, but there he is attacked on his probity, his honesty. Mr. Riolo says of him that he is a manipulator, a liar, these are unbearable words”, reacted his lawyer Isabelle Wekstein, denouncing a “permanent relentlessness” of the journalist.