PARIS (Reuters) – The owner and former president of the Angers SCO Saïd Chabane was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison, one of which was suspended, by the Angers criminal court for sexual assault.
“Mr. Chabane does not agree with this part of the decision and will appeal it so that before the Angers Court of Appeal, after we have continued the defense work, it can be completely exonerated,” Mr. Pascal Rouiller, one of Saïd Chabane’s two lawyers, told the press in comments reported by Ouest-France.
Saïd Chabane was accused by seven complainants for acts committed between 2014 and 2019. He was found guilty of the acts denounced by six women and acquitted “with the benefit of the doubt” in a seventh case.
“This conviction against the former president of Angers SCO weakens the club. We want the effective withdrawal of Saïd Chabane from the life of the club. It is important that sport regains its rights”, reacted in a joint press release from the mayor of Angers Jean-Marc Verchère, the president of the department of Maine-et-Loire Florence Dabin and the president of the Pays de la Loire region Christelle Morançais.
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Owner of the Angevin football club since 2011, the Franco-Algerian left the position of president to his son, Romain Chabane, in April 2023.
(Written by Vincent Daheron)
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