An investigation was opened at the end of August into suspicions of illicit resale of tickets for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Friday September 8. The brigade for the repression of economic delinquency (BRDE) was contacted, said the public prosecutor.
These investigations follow a complaint filed on August 17 in Paris by the organizing committee of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, which accuses an individual of having “established a structured system” illicit resale of tickets. The public interest group (GIP) France 2023 markets all tickets giving access to the 48 matches of the World Cup, which begins Friday evening and runs until October 28.
On July 20, the GIP ticketing service noticed that someone was purchasing 150 tickets “with different credit cards”, relates the complaint. The GIP accuses him of having then “established a structured system” (via in particular a summary table of dates, unit price, payment by transfer or Paypal, etc.) in order to resell the tickets with a substantial margin: a place at 170 euros is thus offered for resale for “1,000 euros”.
In a civil judgment rendered on July 6 in another case of resale of tickets for the 2023 World Cup, the Paris court recalled that the GIP monopoly was aimed “protection against increases in the cost of tickets resulting from their resale” And “the security of the event by controlling the identity of spectators”.
The World with AFP
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