Paris (AFP)

Paris prosecutors have recently filed a new lawsuit against Bernard Sainz, nicknamed "Dr Mabuse" of cycling, who was pinned in the process of dispensing his doping advice in a hidden camera, which he refutes. learned AFP Friday from concordant sources.

Bernard Sainz, 76, on his side counterattacked by filing a complaint against the show Cash Investigation, whose investigation, released in June 2016, is at the origin of the new accusations of doping against him, said AFP his lawyer, Mr. Hector Bernardini, confirming information from L'Equipe.

In its final closing, dated September 6, the public prosecutor's office requested the correctional correction of Bernard Sainz for "help or incentive of sportsman to the use of forbidden substances or methods", "illegal exercise of the profession of doctor" and " illegal practice of the profession of pharmacist ", also confirmed his lawyer.

It is now up to the examining magistrate in charge of the case to order a referral to the criminal court or a dismissal.

Former sports director reconverted in care, Bernard Sainz has already been sentenced in appeal to Caen 12 months in prison suspended and 2,000 euros fine in February 2019, in another doping case in the world of amateur and semi-professional cycling . He has been cited in several other cases, which earned him the nickname "Dr. Mabuse".

In the report on Cash Investigation, produced in collaboration with Le Monde, Bernard Sainz was filmed in a hidden camera giving doping protocols to cyclists, including EPO, corticosteroids and clenbuterol.

False, retorts his lawyer, for whom "we have disguised the meaning of his words". His complaint includes acts of "aggravated fraud, criminal conspiracy, invasion of privacy and the right to image or violation of the secrecy of digital correspondence".

Amateur cyclist in the 1960s, Bernard Sainz became known as assistant sports director of a professional team (Fagor-Mercier then Gan-Mercier), whose stars were the legendary Raymond Poulidor or Cyrille Guimard.

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