Marie Gicquel, edited by Yanis Darras 7:59 p.m., December 21, 2022
While the shadow of Didier Gailhaguet, former president of the French Federation of Ice Sports, hovers again over the organization, skater Sarah Abitbol is sounding the alarm.
Three years after her revelations about sexual violence in the world of skating, the young woman is worried, exclusively at the microphone of Europe 1, of the potential decline of the organization on this subject.
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Is the French Federation of Ice Sports facing a new controversy?
Three years after the publication of skater Sarah Abitbol's book,
Un si long silence,
in which the young woman delivers a chilling account of the rapes of her trainer Gilles Beyer when the latter was 15, the FFSG finds itself again at the forefront of the scene.
Forced to resign in 2020, the all-powerful former president of the Federation Didier Gailhaguet is suspected of preparing his return to his head.
"I am still very worried for my Federation since we have unfortunately moved back with these new elections", is alarmed at the microphone of Europe 1, the skater Sarah Abitbol.
“He is omnipresent”
"I think there was lobbying and unfortunately, the former president of the federation who left (editor's note: Didier Gailhaguet), came back through the window there," laments the high-level sportswoman.
"He is omnipresent within this new federation", she judges.
For Sarah Abitbol, no doubt: the Skating Federation is regressing.
"So we're going to say: 'Sarah Abitbol, she's speaking again' after a long silence.
"But I speak to protect our children, to protect the new generation. We had indeed made progress with Nathalie Péchalat. But there, we can only see the decline and I am really very worried "for the future of the victims within the FFSG, she concludes.