Former skating champion Sarah Abitbol was heard on Monday by the minor protection brigade in Paris in an investigation opened in early February for rape and sexual assault on minors, according to Le Parisien and AFP .
In her testimony book Un si long silence , Sarah Abitbol accused her former trainer Gilles Beyer of having raped and sexually assaulted her several times between 1990 to 1992, a period covered by prescription. The figure skater denounced the facts "to be able to rebuild herself, but also to bring her voice and her support to the suffering women, who did not divulge their heavy secret," said her lawyers in a press release. Abitbol caused the resignation under pressure of the patron of French skating, Didier Gailhaguet, but also an earthquake in the world of sport with the revelation of other accusations of rape or sexual assault in other disciplines. In January, Gilles Beyer , who conceded "intimate and" inappropriate "relations with Sarah Abitbol," reserves his statements to justice, at whose disposal he stands, "said his lawyer Me Thibault de Montbrial.
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