A mission of the General Inspectorate of Sports on sexual violence in judo and one in horse riding were launched after the revelation of several cases in these two sports, Minister responsible for Sports Roxana Maracineanu told AFP on Thursday. November 5.
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After the testimony in
Le Parisien
of a judoka recounting having been raped by her trainer ten years ago, the minister met Wednesday with the president of the French Judo Federation (FFJ), Jean-Luc Rougé.
In total, the ministry has identified around twenty reports concerning judo, one of the most popular sports in France with half a million licensees, between the cases that reached the ministry's cell and those cases that appeared in the press, including he had no knowledge.
This cell, set up last winter, following several cases of rape and sexual assault, of which the resounding testimony of the skater Sarah Abitbol, has reached 313 reports.
“
80 federations are concerned,
” Ms. Maracineanu told AFP, that is to say that almost no sport escapes it.
In a report drawn up in July, after a few months of operation, the number of reports was 180.
Regarding horse riding, in the same way, after the revelation of several cases, the minister had met the president of the French Equitation Federation last June.
The cases identified by the cell in this discipline were then in number of "
fifteen
".
The minister had in fact raised the possibility of launching a mission of the General Inspectorate, but this had not been confirmed.
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In early September, the Paris prosecutor's office had indicated that it was embarking on additional investigations into figure skating, following a damning report from the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Sports.
This report highlighted the suspicions weighing on 21 coaches of the French Federation of Ice Sports (FFSG), including 12 implicated for "
acts of harassment or sexual assault
".
Following Sarah Abitbol's book and other testimonials from skaters, the Ministry of Sports had indeed decided to initiate an administrative investigation with the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) .