The former judo executive was indicted at the end of February for aggravated rape of a minor under 15, said the Lille prosecutor's office on Wednesday March 17, 2021.
The anti-sexual assault household is continuing within the sports community. A former northern executive of the French Judo Federation, between 2012 and 2016, was indicted at the end of February 2021 for aggravated rape of a minor under 15, according to the Lille prosecutor's office, relayed by the newspaper The team. At the end of November 2020, a preliminary investigation was initiated after reports from the president and the national technical director of the French Judo Federation. The latter reported "facts of sexual assault likely to have been committed by a trainer in his sixties, who also served in the federal authorities, against three victims". The former president of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais League, according to a source from Agence France-Presse (AFP), was suspended immediately following these suspicions."A judicial investigation was opened on February 25, 2021 of the count of rape committed on the person of a minor of 15 years by a person having authority over the victim, the individual was indicted only for facts concerning one minors ", explained, Wednesday March 17, 2021, the Lille prosecutor's office to AFP, while adding that "the investigations are continuing". As the reminder France Info, this man was a teacher's trainer, "himself indicted in the context of a judicial investigation opened before the summer".
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Sexual violence in the world of sport
Revelations of assaults and rapes emerge year after year in the sacrosanct sports world. Especially since the arrival of Roxana Maracineanu at the Ministry in charge of Sports, which launched an action plan in the face of this sexual violence. Recall that a first assessment in July 2020 had listed nearly 177 reports in 40 sports federations, received by the anti-violence unit of the ministry. And in 100% of cases, administrative or judicial investigations were in progress. For 76% of the reported facts, they were rape and sexual assault. "We must, by all means, be able to act on sports associations. The town halls must be aware of what is happening there and the federations must be responsible. The ministry must be there to help. act, that is to say systematically report to justice, verify that the investigations go to the end and then be able to take administrative and federal measures to exclude these adults, when necessary ", had estimated Roxana Maracineanu, on Europe 1 at the time.