A book to break 30 years of silence, "raise your head and heal". Sarah Abitbol denounces, in Un si long silence , to be published on January 30 and whose Obs obtained the good sheets, the sexual abuse of Gilles Beyer, her trainer between 1990 and 1992. She tells how, then aged 15 years old, the one she calls "sir" O wakes her in the middle of the night to "kiss her, or even more", to "do horrible things until sexual abuse".
The multiple French figure skating champion also explains how the man, under the guise of his coaching work, succeeds in arousing no suspicion among the relatives of the teenager. "For two years, you regularly say to my mother," Tonight, I'm babysitting Sarah to train her. " And you raped me in the parking lot, the locker rooms and in nooks and crannies of the ice rink which I didn't even suspect existed. "
Abitbol has warned the Ministry of Sports
Once a medalist, Sarah Abitbol intends to take advantage of the weight she thinks she has then to contact the Ministry of Sports and alert about Beyer, then still the owner of a club. "He answered me and said, 'Look, I'm going to watch what's going on, I'm going to check if there's a file. And I'll call you back.' He called me back two days later and he said to me: "listen Sarah, yes there is a file. But we are going to close our eyes", "she said in an interview granted in parallel to the Obs . Contacted by our colleagues, the former Abitbol coach said that he had already explained himself to justice.
These revelations echo the revelations of the daily L'Equipe , which publishes the same day a vast file on sexual violence in the world of figure skating and where three former high level skaters decide to break the omerta.
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#Metoo: Omerta, ostrich and inaction… In sport, France is “twenty to thirty years behind”
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