Ex-football chief Blatter too ill to testify at his fraud trial

BELLINZONA, June 9 — The trial of former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and French footballing legend Michel Platini over alleged corrupt payments ground to a halt on Wednesday when Blatter said he was too ill to testify.

“The pain will come back and I am having difficulty breathing,” the 86-year-old told, the court in a whisper. Both have denied wrongdoing and say they had a verbal agreement over the payment, which related to consultancy work by Platini between 1998 and 2002. “I am convinced that justice will be fully and definitively done to me after so many years of wild accusations and slander,” he said in statement before the hearing.

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