The mother of young skating champion Nadjma Mahamoud, who accused ex-trainer Gilles Beyer in early February of sexual harassment and blackmail between 2017 and 2018, was heard on Friday by investigators, AFP learned from concordant sources .
"You sleep with me and I bring your daughter up to high level ..."
The hearing at the juvenile protection brigade, in charge of the preliminary investigation opened at the beginning of February by the Paris prosecutor's office for "rapes" and "sexual assaults on minors by a person having authority over the victim", ended in midday, a judicial source said. This woman told L'Equipe at the beginning of February that her daughter, Nadjma, champion of France junior in 2014, wanted to join in the fall of 2017 the Parisian club of flying French, where Gilles Beyer then officiated.
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- Le Parisien (@le_Parisien) February 19, 2020Upon making contact, the leader "began to send me obscene messages regularly," she said. "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", continued this mother.
She accuses Gilles Beyer of going so far as to ask him 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, ”said the mother.
"No comment. My client is at the disposal of justice, "replied Gilles Beyer's lawyer, Me Thibault de Montbrial, to AFP. Gilles Beyer is also accused by two skaters, including former champion Sarah Abitbol, ​​of rape and sexual assault that took place between the late 1970s and the early 1990s.
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