The individual, a specialist in the 400m hurdles, was indicted by the chiefs “of sexual assault and sexual assault with administration of a harmful substance“, specifies the parquet floor of Pontoise which opened a judicial investigation on June 24. Five people filed a complaint, nowadays.
drugged partners
The last two facts date back to June 18. Two athletes from EA Cergy-Pontoise Athlétisme (EACPA), who participated in the meeting in Tarare (Rhône), were offered a supposed food supplement by the respondent at their hotel.
During the night, he goes to the bed of one of the two athletes and masturbates him, according to the testimony of the runner, reported by the club. The latter, who did not take the stamp, is petrified and does not move, according to this same source.
The respondent would also have gone to the bed of the second athlete who took the substance and made him sick all night, according to the EACPA. These facts were reported to the club and other athletes quickly also testified, declaring that they had been sexually assaulted.
Procedure opened by the French athletics federation
These facts were reported to the club and other athletes quickly also testified, declaring that they had been sexually assaulted. “There was real action from the club, very proactive“, explains to AFP Guillaume Guiloineau, coach at the EACPA and sports technical adviser (CTS). “We brought together the whole training group the day after the events (in Tarare) to explain the procedures to them, to tell them that we were at their disposal for individual calls and anonymous or not, and that we could set up a psychological help cell“, continues Mr. Guiloineau.
Following this meeting,we went from three athletes involved to six“, specifies the coach who, with another colleague, took charge of calling “other athletes who may have had to share their room during camps or competitions“. The French Athletics Federation (FFA) told AFP that a procedure specific to the FFA was underway.