Paris (AFP)

The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) has sued for marriages Calm and libel marathon Clemence Calvin, who had accused the levers of the agency of violence during a check on March 27 in Marrakech, learned the AFP Thursday from concordant sources.

The athlete had delivered this version to defend against having evaded a doping control conducted by a team of three samplers, including the director of AFLD Damien Ressiot controls.

This refusal of control, which she refutes, is worth to Clemence Calvin to be suspended temporarily, the time that the sanctions commission of the AFLD is pronounced. She incurs up to four years of suspension.

The runner-up European marathon champion in 2018 filed a complaint in Morocco on April 8 "for violence and threats".

"People came running on me from behind, they grabbed me by the arm, they said to me + French police, where is (Samir) Dahmani?", Her husband and coach, had assured the athlete, who also accuses Damien Ressiot of having, in a second time, made fall his child by tapping his arm. Charges firmly refuted by the AFLD.

"I confirm that a complaint in slanderous denunciation has been lodged with the public prosecutor of Paris, by the AFLD and the three persons" referred to by Clemence Calvin in his own complaint in Morocco, explained the lawyer of the agency, Me Basil Ader, questioned by AFP. This complaint could lead the prosecution to open an investigation.

The lawyer said that the AFLD and Damien Ressiot also summoned the athlete to the court for defamation, following these statements in various media.

- "Silly" -

"I am amazed that an administrative authority like the AFLD feels the need to take criminal proceedings against a person who will have to appear before it." This is clearly a problem of bias for the future, "responded one lawyers of Clemence Calvin, Me Rodolphe Bosselut.

"When you are an institution, you are not feverish enough to attack someone who has only as a failure to stand up," he added.

Contacted, the AFLD did not react. Slanderous reporting is an offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 45,000 euros.

Clemency Calvin, dismissed in Martigues, has challenged before the Council of State, in summary, its provisional suspension and the hearing will take place next Tuesday. The Council of State had already lifted Calvin's suspension for the first time, allowing him to run the Paris Marathon on April 14th.

That day, despite a late preparation troubled by the case, Clemence Calvin, fourth finish, set a new record in France (2 h 23 min 41 sec). The time has not been approved at this stage because of the disciplinary procedure.

In parallel, the Marseille public prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation for "infringements of legislation on doping products".

? 2019 AFP