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Overview
- Netflix’s Le bus: les Bleus en grève, released Wednesday, May 13, reopened the Knysna scandal and drew fresh reactions from former players, ex-coach Raymond Domenech, and politicians.
- Roselyne Bachelot said Friday on BFMTV that she does not regret calling the 2010 squad “immature bosses,” and she stressed she never used the word “thugs,” which players heard in her speech at the time.
- Bachelot argued the federation failed to fire Domenech after Euro 2008 and claimed Franck Ribéry pushed for him to stay, saying that vacuum let senior players exert control.
- Players featured in the documentary describe her 2010 address as a betrayal, with Patrice Evra saying she “dirties us” and questioning where she saw “bosses” and “scared kids.”
- Domenech denounced the film on X as a biased attack and said directors denied him a promised review and printed excerpts from his private diary, while the producers said no interviews were paid and no one was allowed to see footage before release.