The Constantine System (Swiss Press Text 2019, by Camille Krafft) - Swiss Press Award
Le Matin Dimanche / 24heures
Camille Krafft
“Sweetheart. Yes, that’s right, he just called you Sweetheart for the second time and you didn’t flinch.” From the outset, journalist Camille Krafft sets the tone of her exposé of the president of FC Sion, Christian Constantin, and the way he relates to women, even when they are journalists. In her detailed six-page portrait of the FC Sion boss, Camille Krafft looked beyond the legend that this brash and outrageous character has constructed around himself. Several weeks of research and numerous witnesses who broke the code of silence made it possible for the journalist for Le Matin Dimanche to analyze the methods of the “Emperor of Valais”. A system built on three pillars: football, real estate, and the media. Always operating on the fringes of legality, using connections, seduction, pressure, muscle, brutal language and flair – the businessman knows how to run the gamut of power games. In Valais he is revered as much as he is feared.
Interview with Camille Krafft
