It is a case that is likely to upset the world of tennis as the facts, if true, are serious. Young player of only 25 years old, Fiona Ferro filed a complaint last February against his former coach, Pierre Bouteyréfor facts of rapes and sexual assaults that allegedly occurred between 2012 and 2015. It was Nice-Matin who made his revelations yesterday … At the time of the alleged facts, the tennis player was not aged between 15 and 18 and she was training near Saint-Raphaël, the city where the accused was indicted on August 18.
According to information from the regional daily, Pierre Bouteyre would have recognized “the materiality of the facts but disputes the accusation of rape” as Fiona Ferro indicates in her complaint. Conversely, the latter’s lawyer, Me Virginie Pin, assures us that it was a matter of relations agreed between his client and the 259th player in the world. Since the start of the affair, the trainer, who notably had Alizé Cornet under his orders, has been placed under judicial supervision with a ban on training minors. He also has a duty of care and must not come into contact with the complainant.
Fiona Ferro’s lawyer asks for help from the FFT
A case that inevitably upset the young woman, recently eliminated from qualifying for the US Open tournament and who does not really seem to have her head in tennis at the moment. On this subject, her lawyer, Me Isabelle Colombani spoke on France Bleu Azur to ask the French Tennis Federation (FFT) to help her client so that her current ranking is frozen, as may be the case for pregnant players. “It would be a major moral support”, explains the lawyer. For her part, Fiona Ferro has not yet spoken publicly about the case, just like the main defendant.
Pierre Bouteyre presumed innocent of the charges against him until the final judgment.