Brigitte Macron will receive Sarah Abitbol this week, we learned Tuesday from those around the president's wife. She wants to meet with the former skater to discuss her book Un si long silence , in which she accuses her former trainer of raping her when she was 15 to 17 years old.
The meeting will take place "this week" between the wife of the Head of State and the skater who sent her book on Friday, telling her "that she wanted to see her to tell her story," adds this source without specifying the exact day. In this book, "Un si long silence", the former French champion of couple figure skating, European and world multi-medalist in couple, denounces facts which would have occurred between 1990 to 1992, a period in principle covered by the prescription. The Paris prosecution opened an investigation on Tuesday into rape and sexual assault on minors after the accusations of Sarah Abitbol.
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- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) February 4, 2020Brigitte Macron "has built her agenda since 2017 on the letters and solicitations of the French" and "was notably very solicited on subjects relating to child protection", underlines his entourage.
The wife of the Head of State received officials from associations active in this field, the last of which was, on January 16, the former rugby player Sébastien Boueilh, founder of the association "Colosse aux pieds d ' clay ”which raises awareness of the risks of pedocrime. She also went to Pediatric Reception Units in the hospitals of Saint-Malo and Orléans with La Voix de l'Enfant, recalls her entourage.
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