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 putting in place a general inspection, the president of the federation that I am will await the results of this inspection before making a decision on a resignation requested by the Minister," he said in margin of an extraordinary executive office of the French Federation of Ice Sports (FSG) organized at the organization's headquarters in Paris.
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A press conference on Wednesday
Didier 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 Beyer was the trainer of Sarah Abitbol, multiple champion from France and Europe and world medalist in couple, who accuses her of having raped her between 1990 and 1992, when she was aged 15 to 17 years old.
Asked about the support provided or not by the fifteen members of the executive committee assembled for more than four hours Tuesday evening, the president dodged the question. "On Wednesday, I will bring documents, facts, concrete documents and you will judge on document," he said of the press conference he will hold 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".