The mother of a young skater accuses Gilles Beyer, the ex-trainer accused of rape and sexual assault for a week, of sexual harassment and blackmail between 2017 and 2018, according to a testimony reported by L'Equipe on Wednesday.
So far, Beyer has been charged by two skaters, including former champion Sarah Abitbol, for rape and sexual assault that took place between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Beyer has been removed from office and then excluded from the French flying since the affair broke out a week ago. The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday the opening of an investigation into rape and sexual assault on minors by a person having authority over the victim.
"You sleep with me and I bring your daughter up to high level"
According to the daily's website, it all started when Nadjma Mahamoud, champion of France juniors in 2014, wanted to join in the fall of 2017 the Parisian club of flying French, where Beyer then officiates. As soon as I made contact, the manager "started sending me obscene messages regularly," says the skater's mother. " Almost every day. "A first meeting takes place two weeks later in the presence also of the teenager and another trainer, at the end of which he" touched her buttocks ", continues Sabina Mahamoud.
Quickly, Beyer goes so far as to ask her for sexual favors in exchange for free lessons. "You sleep with me and you pay nothing and I bring your daughter up to high level ...", he would have suggested. "He knew that I had few means, he wanted to take advantage of the situation. I felt humiliated, ”says the mother.
"You basically had to work as a prostitute to do high level"
Nadjma Mahamoud, 20 years old today, will decide to leave the club and get away from skating a few days after coming across these messages - which also sometimes target her. “He used to send messages to my mother, where you basically had to work as a prostitute to do high level. So I left. I lived for skating since I was 3 and a half, ”says the young woman.
In total, more than 120 text messages were exchanged between Beyer and Sabina Mahamoud in just five months, between October 27, 2017 and March 24, 2018, writes L'Equipe , who was able to consult them. “The telephone number corresponds to the number of Gilles Beyer in our possession. These messages corroborate the declarations of Nadjma's mother, "specifies the sports newspaper.
- Blackmail
- Sexual assault
- Rape
- Sarah Abitbol case
- Sport
- Skating