Marseille (AFP)

The health center of the Marseille court opened a criminal investigation against X after initial investigations related to an investigation into suspicions of doping around the French athlete Clemence Calvin, was learned Thursday from judicial source.

The judicial information was opened on October 7 for "acquisition, possession, transport, prescription, offer and transfer of substances or products" doping, "disposal of substance classified as poisonous," said this source confirming information from the daily Le Monde .

The home, in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône), Clemence Calvin, runner-up European marathon in 2018, and her husband and coach Samir Dahmani, had been raided mid-April without any doping product be found.

These searches took place in the context of a preliminary investigation opened in Marseilles for "infringements of the legislation on doping products".

But, according to a source close to the investigation, quoted by Le Monde, the gendarmes had found a blank medical prescription.

Clemency Calvin announced Wednesday evening to AFP to have been suspended for four years by the sanctions commission of the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) for evading an unexpected anti-doping test in Marrakech on March 27th. that she refutes.

She announced to AFP that she would appeal.

Samir Dahmani was given the same suspension for obstructing himself between the athlete and the controllers, which he also refutes.

Already deprived of the World Cup in Doha (27 September-6 October), Clemence Calvin also sees her participation in the Tokyo Olympics next summer move away.

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