Will the revelations of former figure skater Sarah Abitbol lead to the opening of an investigation? The Paris prosecutor's office is considering this hypothesis. "The possibility of opening an investigation is being analyzed by the Paris public prosecutor's office," according to a judicial source.
In a testimonial book published on Thursday ( Un si long silence , Plon), Sarah Abitbol, ten times French champion of figure skating in pairs, European and world multi-winner in pairs, accuses her former trainer Gilles Beyer of having raped and sexually assaulted her several times between 1990 to 1992, a period covered by prescription. She was between the ages of 15 and 17.
Abitbol refuses Beyer's apology
Other former skaters have made similar charges against Mr. Beyer and other coaches. Hélène Godard accuses Beyer in L'Equipe and L'Obs of having had sex with her when she was 13 and 14 years old. Anne Bruneteaux and Béatrice Dumur accused them of another former trainer, Michel Lotz, of having abused them in the 1980s when they were 13 years old.
Friday, Gilles Beyer, 62, admitted in a written statement, "intimate" and "inappropriate" with Sarah Abitbol, offering him "apologies". The former champion immediately refused her apologies, and declared on the L'Obs website that she was awaiting a second stage, "one that will highlight the responsibility of all those who covered, in the club (the flying French ) and to the federation ”.
Gailhaguet heard on Monday by Maracineanu
In the early 2000s, on the basis of a report from parents, Gilles Beyer had been the subject of a judicial investigation which did not succeed, then of an administrative investigation, which led the Ministry of Sports to put an end to his functions as a state executive on March 31, 2001, we learned from the ministry.
Despite this sidelining, Gilles Beyer continued his career at the Parisian club of flying French, chaired by his brother Alain, until his ouster on Friday, and served several terms in the executive office of the FFSG until 2018. This retention puts under pressure the boss of the federation, Didier Gailhaguet, president since 1998, except a parenthesis between 2004 and 2007. The latter will have to explain himself Monday to the Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu.
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