Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was innocent when he appeared in a Swiss court on Monday alongside France soccer great Michel Platini, 2-1/2 years after they were both cleared of fraud.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini are due to appear in court in Switzerland on Monday accused of fraud – two-and-a-half years after they were cleared.

One week before his 89th birthday, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter returns to court Monday for a retrial in a case of alleged financial wrongdoing that has run for nearly 10 years. Blatter and French soccer great Michel Platini were acquitted in July 2022 by three federal judges on charges including fraud,

Former Fifa kingpin Sepp Blatter reiterated his innocence over a £1.6m payment made to ex-Uefa chief Michel Platini as the fraud case returned to court on Monday. Two of football’s most influential figures of the 21st century are back in the dock after Swiss prosecutors appealed a decision to acquit both men at a previous

The two men were acquitted almost three years ago, but the Swiss Attorney General's Office and FIFA appealed against the decision. View on euronews

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter distanced himself from corruption in soccer when he went on trial Monday for the second time alongside his one-time protege Michel Platini. Blatter and Platini returned to a federal court room nearly three years after they were acquitted at a first trial on charges of fraud,

The defence lawyers of former FIFA president Joseph Blatter and former UEFA boss Michel Platini have pleaded for another acquittal of their clients in the new round of a legal dispute over suspicion of fraud in Muttenz,

Ex-Fifa head Sepp Blatter and French football great Michel Platini were cleared in 2022, but prosecutors appealed.

The pair returned to a Swiss courtroom nearly three years after they were acquitted at a first trial in July 2022.

Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter arrived at a Swiss court Monday for his fresh trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges, appearing frail one week before his 89th birthday. “I am hopeful,” Blatter told reporters in German as he walked slowly down a flight of stairs toward the court house,

Ex-FIFA President Sepp Blatter leaves the special appeals court on Monday in Muttenz, Switzerland. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.