Skater Morgan Ciprès during the Worlds in Milan, March 28, 2018. - Luca Bruno / AP / SIPA

Morgan Ciprès can breathe and resume training more calmly. The French skater, suspected of having sent obscene photos to a minor at the end of 2017, was released by the disciplinary commission of the French Federation of Ice Sports (FFSG) which will not appeal.

The Federation is not aware of a complaint

In its decision on Tuesday, the FFSG indicates that it "has not been brought [to its] knowledge (...) either complaint of the alleged victim or element likely to establish the existence of criminal proceedings". In addition, it "does not appear in the file any objective element (photographs, messages, letter ...) likely to establish proof of the alleged offense". Thus, a "conviction decision could not emerge from press clippings alone and from the letter from an American lawyer addressed to the FFSG inviting it to contact its insurer", adds the commission, for whom "the materiality of the facts prosecuted "Is" not established in evidence ".

Morgan Ciprès, 2019 European champion with Vanessa James, in couples, is suspected of having sent two photos of her sex to a young skater of thirteen. The young girl's lawyer, Andrea Lewis, regretted "a scandalous decision". According to her, the FFSG “shows that it cares more about money than child victims, ignoring overwhelming evidence, but also the physical and emotional damage inflicted on a young girl by someone she admired and in whom she trusted ”. The case could therefore not stop there in the United States.

Scandals in the French skating world

The disciplinary commission was seized on April 23 by the new president of the FFSG, Nathalie Péchalat, elected in mid-March after the resignation of Didier Gailhaguet, swept away by the scandal of sexual violence that shook French skating in early 2020.

In a separate decision rendered Monday, the disciplinary committee also declared itself incompetent with regard to former coach Gilles Beyer for the rape of which the former skater Sarah Abitbol accuses him in the early 1990s. in fact no longer had a license from the FFSG when it ruled in July. On the other hand, the former coach is still the subject of an investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office, in particular for "rapes".

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