The authorities of French sport are definitely going through sacred legal storms.

Eight days after the opening of an investigation for moral and sexual harassment against Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), it is the turn of handball to face serious accusations.

As

Franceinfo

reveals on Wednesday , the president of the National Handball League (NHL) Bruno Martini is being prosecuted for "corruption of a minor" and "recording of child pornography images".

The 1995 and 2001 world champion with the France team, 52, was arrested and placed in police custody on Monday morning.

Brought to the Paris court on Tuesday, he was released for a probable appearance on prior admission of guilt.

It all started with the complaint of a 13-year-old teenager, during the summer of 2020. He explained to the police that he had been approached on a social network by a man, with exchanges of photos and videos of a sexual nature.

While this man had set him an appointment and paid for a taxi to invite him to him, the teenager canceled this meeting at the last moment.



An admission of guilt beforehand to reduce his sentence?

Investigators from the minors protection brigade discovered that behind the suspect's Internet pseudonym was Bruno Martini.

They arrested the former 1.97 goalkeeper, who became general manager of PSG Handball from 2010 to 2021, at his Parisian home. The former international admitted to the investigators having approached the teenager, but he clarified that he thought the latter was over 15 years old.

After two days in police custody, and while the France team will play its quarter-final of the Handball World Cup against Germany this Wednesday (8:30 p.m.), Bruno Martini has been released, and he could plead guilty before his appearance.

A sentence of less than five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros would be offered to him in this case.

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