Formula 1: Flavio Briatore sued World Association




Lifetime ban contradicts human rights of the EU. "In this case, the FIA has been used as a tool to engage the revenge of one man," said Briatore.


PARIS - The mudslinging continues: The life excluded from F1 Flavio Briatore marches against the automobile body FIA to court. The former Renault team boss confirmed on Sunday dimanche a report in a separate release of the French newspaper Journal du, after the District Court of Paris against it his life-long exclusion from the premier class, and also insist on complaining a payment of 500,000 to one million euros wants. Briatore's lawyers point out that a lifetime ban violates the human rights of the EU.

"In this case, the FIA has been used as a tool to engage the revenge of one man," said Briatore, overlooking the outgoing FIA President Max Mosley: "This decision is a legal absurdity, and I have every confidence that the French courts the issues are resolved fairly and impartially."
Briatore was on 21 September by the World Council of FIA banned for life from F1 was. Together with engineering boss Pat Symonds, he had persuaded the former driver Nelson Piquet Jr., 2008 in Singapore a deliberate accident to help team-mate Fernando Alonso to victory. The scandal became known as "Crashgate" in Formula 1 history.

F1 promoter Bernie Ecclestone, himself one of the 26 Council members, apparently had already feared problems with the above formulation, when he said recently: "What I did not like was the expression 'life'. Not even if you kill today, one that you get life in prison. 50 years would have sounded better. For Flavio could it mean for life. "

Playboy Briatore had sounded after the sentence has already been: `At the end I will win and then organize a wonderful party. I will invite all those people who are close to me during this difficult time.

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