(ANSA) - PARIS, FEBRUARY 5 - "We can no longer remain silent. It is time to act collectively and to become aware that breaking the silence also means serving sport": this is the appeal published today in the Le Parisien newspaper by a group of French top athletes. level after the revelations about sexual abuse in French skating.
"The recent revelations of sexual assaults suffered by numerous young sportsmen shake the system and awaken our anger", continue the champions, including the skiers Maria Martinod and Ophélie David, the Judo star Teddy Riner or tennis player Tatiana Golovin.
The Paris prosecutor investigates the allegations of rape and sexual violence against minors after the revelations about the abuses that the former artistic painting champion Sarah Abitbol would have suffered in the nineties. The latter caused quite a stir by publishing a book in these days in which she accuses the former coach Gilles Beyer of raping her several times between 1990 and 1992.
France: athletes against sexual abuse
2020-02-05T10:49:38.182Z
"We can no longer be silent. (ANSA)