The Bayonne court will have to determine on February 13 whether or not Amélie Mauresmo was the victim of harassment from her wife Marie-Bénédicte Hurel, his wife, with whom she is currently in the middle of divorce proceedings, and against whom she has filed a complaint.
The former world number one tennis player also became a civil party during the closed-door trial this Tuesday, January 23, according to information from France Bleu.
Placed in police custody, his wife contests
In a relationship, with two children, in a house in Anglet since April 2014 and married since July 2021, the current director of the Roland-Garros tournament, filed for divorce last year.
Since then, she says she is “going through hell”.
Humiliation, blackmail, insults punctuate his daily life, including by SMS.
What characterizes moral harassment.
He was also prescribed a total incapacity for work (ITT) of ten days.
Marie-Bénédicte Hurel was placed in police custody at the Biarritz police station last September.
The facts are fiercely contested by the defendant, aged 60, and her two lawyers Thierry Sagardoytho and Marie-Thérèse Hougneu.
“The contested SMS messages are not at all harassment, but a simple discussion on daily management,” declared Me Thierry Sagardoytho to France Bleu.
The Pau lawyer believes that there is an “instrumentalization of an artificial complaint in the perspective of divorce”.
The defense therefore pleads for acquittal.
The public prosecutor Jean-Claude Belot requested a ten-month suspended prison sentence for Marie-Bénédicte Hurel.
Verdict in three weeks.