The association "A colossus with feet of clay", specialist in child criminality in sports, will intervene with the departmental judo committee of the North which requested it after suspicion of sexual violence, we learned on Tuesday Signed on Tuesday, this agreement will materialize from this December through a video-conference awareness campaign among the leaders of the some 180 clubs in the committee, its president Eric Fiolka and Simon Latournerie told AFP. , speaker of the association, for whom the committee "fully seized the situation".
Secondly, when sanitary conditions allow, the association should visit four clubs particularly concerned, to meet families, practitioners and volunteer supervisors.
After the revelation of several suspected cases of sexual assault, "we wanted to work with people outside judo, having experience of this type of situation, knowing how to find the right words", explains Mr. Fiolka, who has since been elected. October, which also wants to introduce into the statutes of the committee the obligation to hire a "verifier" to monitor the effectiveness of its commitments in the fight against child crime.
“Moral values are essential in judo.
I cannot admit that we put so much investment into instilling them and that we find ourselves in such a situation.
This idea is unbearable to me, ”insists the leader, who approached the federation when suspected cases of sexual violence were raised in November.
The Lille public prosecutor's office on November 19 opened a preliminary investigation entrusted to the Lille PJ for alleged sexual assault against three victims targeting a former executive of the French Judo Federation between 2012 and 2016, suspended by the instance for these suspicions.
This man in his sixties, coach in several northern clubs was also the coach of a forty-year-old judo teacher indicted in the context of a judicial investigation opened before the summer.
This indictment, dating back to September 29, relates to alleged facts of "rape committed on a minor by a person having authority over the victim", according to the prosecution which indicated that no link was established "for the moment" between the two cases.
One of the forty-something students had testified in the Parisian at the beginning of November, the starting point of a series of revelations in French judo.
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