A model with an AS Saint-Etienne jersey (photo illustration). - R. Lafabregue / AFP

ASSE believes that these are "unacceptable facts". “Inappropriate acts and contrary to the values ​​inscribed in its sports project of excellence. Two residents of the Saint-Etienne training center were laid off before a possible sanction and a third was temporarily excluded. The three boys, aged 15, 16 and 17, are suspected of having violently hazed three interns aged 14 to 15. The prosecution of Saint-Etienne made this Monday an update on the investigation, opened for "violence in meeting with weapons. "

The #ASSE has been informed of unacceptable facts that allegedly occurred within its training center.

The club cannot tolerate acts that are inappropriate and contrary to the values ​​enshrined in its sports project of excellence.

📝 Read the full press release 👇

- AS Saint-Étienne (@ASSEofficiel) August 1, 2020

"As far as we know, there was only one episode, which occurred very soon after the reopening of the training center, on July 20," said deputy prosecutor André Merle, in a press release quoted by  Le Progrès and France Bleu Saint-Etienne Loire. "The three suspected people would have come to the rooms of the plaintiffs at the time of the evening meal," he said. The suspects, originally from the Paris region, would have forced their victims "to do push-ups by striking them on the shoulders, back, hands or plexus. "

One day of ITT each

The three victims were placed in total incapacity for work for one day. These young men were heard by investigators and their parents will be able to file a complaint in the coming days. ASSE has already filed a complaint.

The gendarmes are continuing their investigation to determine if there were no other hazing in the months preceding the confinement.

Sport

Saint-Etienne: Opening of an investigation after the hazing of apprentice footballers

Sport

PSG-ASSE: Cathedral silence and muffled festivities ... So, what does football in the world look like after?

  • Hazing
  • Violence
  • Saint Etienne
  • Soccer
  • Sport
  • Lyon
  • ASSE