Michel Platini was questioned over France’s successful bid for the 2016 European Championships and the Qatar 2022 World Cup vote after he was arrested by anti-corruption police in Paris yesterday.
French police have been looking into the role of the former France president Nicolas Sarkozy in the Qatar vote since launching a probe three years ago, but it is the first time that Euro 2016 has emerged as another avenue of investigation.
The investigation has focused on a lunch Sarkozy organised for Qatar’s leaders and Platini at his official residence in Paris a few days before the Fifa election in 2010.
Platini, 63, who was released from custody late last night, was president of Uefa and a vice-president of Fifa at the time, and his
