By interim order of October 15, 2013, the Administrative Court of Paris suspended the execution of the decision of the French Football Federation which had, on July 3, 2013, suspended Leonardo, former Sports Director of Paris Saint-Germain, from any official function until June 30, 2014.
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On October 15, 2013, the General Court granted Leonardo's requests and considered that the conditions of urgency and serious doubt about the legality of the contested decision had been met.
On the condition of the urgency to suspend the disciplinary sanction pronounced by the FFF
The judge recalls beforehand that "the condition of urgency to which the pronouncement of a suspension measure is subject must be regarded as fulfilled when the contested administrative decision prejudices in a sufficiently serious and immediate manner a public interest, the situation of the applicant or the interests he intends to defend". It is therefore up to the interim judge to assess concretely whether the effects of the decision are such as to characterize this urgency.
The Administrative Court thus considers that "the effects of the sanction imposed on Mr. de Araujo on his professional career (..) "are such as to characterize an emergency situation justifying that the execution of the decision be suspended.
