- The US Colomiers published a press release on Tuesday to support one of their educators, attacked during a youth tournament on Saturday morning in Toulouse.
- The U10 coach lost consciousness and had to be hospitalized, while the hunter fled.
- The club gathered the parents of the young players on Monday, and made a psychologist available to families.
US Colomiers (USC) has been in shock since Saturday, and the very violent assault of one of its educators during a youth tournament, organized in the Toulouse district of Saint-Simon. This Tuesday, one of the main Haut-Garonne football clubs, with more than 800 licensees, issued a press release to support the volunteer, who filed the complaint.
This U10 category coach (under ten) supervised his team, which had just played the first match of the day, when it was attacked shortly before 10:30 am by a man, for reasons that the investigation will have to determine . According to a USC official, the attacker, who initially introduced himself as a Marseille educator, acted quickly as children and parents of the Columérine team joined another field to continue the tournament.
"A particularly anxiety-provoking climate"
The coach was in the process of retrieving balloons when he was struck. The 40-year-old lost consciousness and was hospitalized the rest of the weekend. Affected in the face, he suffered in particular from a broken cheekbone. His team and the other club U10 squad entered in the tournament immediately abandoned the event.
Monday evening, the parents of the young players, shocked, were received by the leaders of the club, who placed at their disposal a psychologist. This Tuesday evening is scheduled a meeting of educators, to discuss the subject as well as the care of children in the absence of their coach, currently on sick leave.
As for the assailant, still unidentified, he was able to flee after his mischief. In its press release, the USC, supported by the Occitanie League and the Haute-Garonne district, hopes for a quick outcome of the investigation to "bring serenity back to a particularly anxiety-provoking current climate for both coaches and young people Columérins ”.
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