Paris (AFP)

Ice sports boss Didier Gailhaguet, whose minister Roxana Maracineanu has asked to resign on Monday in the context of revelations about sexual assault in skating, said on Tuesday that he would not take a decision before the end of the inspection commissioned by the Ministry of Sports.

"The minister having announced that she was setting up a general inspection, the federation president that I am will await the results of this inspection before making a decision on a resignation requested by the Minister," said Mr. Gailhaguet in the evening on the sidelines of an extraordinary executive office of the French Ice Sports Federation (FSG) organized at the organization's headquarters in Paris.

Gailhaguet is implicated for having kept in his federal team Gilles Beyer despite a ban on working with minors after an investigation in the early 2000s.

Gilles Meyer was the trainer of Sarah Abitbol, ​​multiple champion of France and Europe and world medal in couple, who accuses her of having raped her between 1990 and 1992, when she was aged 15 to 17 years.

Gailhaguet has chaired the FFSG since 1998, with the exception of the period 2004-2007. In 2002, he was banned from any international function for 3 years for cheating by the vote of a French judge during the Olympic Games-2002.

Asked about the support provided or not by the fifteen members of the executive committee assembled for more than four hours Tuesday evening, Mr. Gailhaguet only replied: "I will tell you tomorrow Wednesday".

"Tomorrow (Wednesday), I will bring documents, facts, concrete documents and you will judge on paper," he said of the press conference he will hold on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the headquarters of the federation. .

"I am aware of the gravity of the situation. I still find it a little odd that only the president of the federation is today in the dock. I am a clean man. I do not deserve the treatment which is given to me brought, and I can demonstrate it. "

He also reiterated that he had "certainly made mistakes, but not made mistakes".

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