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Roselyne Bachelot , the former French Sports Minister convicted of having accused the Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal in 2016 of doping, will be the new Minister of Culture of the Government of Emmanuel Macron .

Bachelot, who between 2007 and 2010 was the head of Sports under President Nicolas Sarkozy, was sentenced to pay 10,000 euros to Nadal , after the twelve-time Roland Garros winner filed a complaint against her.

In March 2016, on a television program, Bachelot was asked about the positive of the Russian Maria Sharapova and accused the tennis world of not being transparent in the fight against doping, while she was convinced that Nadal was doping .

"They do not reveal the positive controls. We simply found out curiously that a player has an injury that keeps him away from the courts for months . We know more or less that the famous injury of Rafael Nadal that kept him seven months without competition (between 2012 and 2013) was surely due to a positive control, "said the new French Minister of Culture.

Those words, which created a great scandal in the country, earned him a conviction in the Correctional Court a year later. Nadal, who at the time had ten Roland Garros titles in his windows, said he felt " fatigued" by the doping suspicions thrown at him in France and decided to go to court. Once the sentence was handed down, the tennis player assured that he would dedicate the money to social purposes.

Bachelot has a long ministerial career. With Jacques Chirac she dealt with Ecology between 2002 and 2004, and with Sarkozy she held the portfolios of Health and Sports between 2007 and 2010, when she became Minister of Solidarity and Cohesion of the Territory until the end of her term in 2012.

Since then, far from the front line, although very present on television sets, it has once again integrated a Government to deal with the Culture portfolio, while the responsibilities of Sports will continue to be in the hands of former swimmer Roxana Maracineanu .

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