Sexual violence: the honorability check for volunteers systematized by 2021

The honorability check of volunteers in sports associations, through the verification of their criminal records, will be systematized no later than January 2021, announced the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu to Le Monde on Sunday. "Still under development, a secure platform will have to be tested this fall by some federations, before being fully operational and generalized by January 2021 at the latest," ie during the licensing periods, the daily said.

"Only one person per federation, depending on the scenario, will have access to this online platform," adds Le Monde , who indicates that the minister must write "during the coming week" to the Federations to inform them of the march. to be continued. Federation by federation, it will be a question of counting the volunteers, "then, in connection with the Ministry of Justice, to carry out an automated cross-referencing of this data with the automated judicial file of the authors of sexual or violent offenses (FIJAISV) . "

For Maracineanu, it is about "building a real health cordon around the practitioners". These controls could affect around two million people. An experiment had been launched last fall in the regional football league of Center-Val de Loire. At the first national convention on sexual violence in sport in February, the minister announced its extension to the French Football Federation (FFF), before future generalization.

French sport has recently been hit by an unprecedented wave of revelations of cases of sexual violence in various disciplines, such as figure skating, football, horse riding, climbing, skiing and even athletics.

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