Laila Traby, bronze medalist in the 10,000 meters at the 2013 European Athletics Championships, appeared with two other defendants in Marseille in a doping case.
She was sentenced on Monday to a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 3,000 euros.
His "vitamin advisor" was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, including a one-year suspended sentence and a fine of 5,000 euros.
A third man received an 18-month suspended prison sentence and a 3,000 euro fine.
Twenty-four years after Richard Virenque, the theory of "unknowing of his own free will" still does not fly in the face of judges.
Laila Traby, former champion of France in the 5,000 meters in 2014, was sentenced Monday in Marseille to a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 3,000 euros for the possession of doping products a few months after this record.
Syringes of EPO, slipped into a box of vitamins, and an empty bottle of growth hormones bearing his DNA were discovered on November 7, 2014, in the fridge of his apartment in Font-Romeu (Pyrénées-Orientales), where the runner was training.
His phone also contained what the prosecution described as "a doping protocol", a 31-day table bearing the name of authorized vitamins but also, on certain days, simple dosages suggesting that they were doping products. prohibited.
After contesting the possession of EPO and growth hormone, Laila Traby had admitted having injected the products which had been presented to her as vitamins authorized and recommended by Salim Ghezielle, at the time her "adviser vitamins”.
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He was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, including a one-year suspended sentence, the six months' imprisonment to be served under the regime of the electronic bracelet at home.
The court also imposed a fine of 5,000 euros on him and a ban on professional or voluntary activity related to a sports body for five years.
In his submissions, the prosecutor had mentioned “the theory of doping without the knowledge of his own free will” describing as “half-confession” the line of defense of the former sportswoman.
The magistrate had described Salim Ghezielle as the one who had incited him to dope, which the latter disputed.
The ex-champion, who opened a beauty salon, had been tested positive, which had earned her a suspension for three years in 2015.
"I don't want to hear any more about athletics since this case which shocked me," Laila Traby told the court during the September 5 hearing.
She was acquitted of the offense of obstructing the control of members of the French Anti-Doping Agency, who had presented themselves at Font-Romeu.
A third defendant, caretaker of buildings after an abortive career as a marathon runner, was suspected of having provided EPO and growth hormone acquired freely in Morocco.
He was sentenced to an eighteen-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 3,000 euros.
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