Julie Boursier, the former swimmer of the AAS Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise) now aged 25, had denounced in 2018 sexual assaults and rapes committed by another swimmer of the club.
The judicial file has just passed an important stage.
The respondent, described as a "charismatic leader" by Julie Boursier, was indicted for rape and sexual assault by an examining magistrate in Pontoise.
He was placed under judicial supervision.
The Pontoise public prosecutor's office confirmed this Friday the information published Thursday afternoon by the website of the Team.
The facts occurred, according to the swimmer, between 2010 and 2013, in particular in the cabins of the aquatic center of Sarcelles.
Other swimmers have testified to sexual assault or touching
It is an important turn in the legal procedure insofar as this indictment, which supposes that “serious and concordant indices” were gathered against the presumed author, intervenes whereas the prosecution had classified without following the initial procedure in July 2019, after the swimmer's complaint.
But the Pontoise prosecutor, Eric Corbaux, had decided to reopen the case in March 2020, while Julie Boursier had collected the testimony of other swimmers implicating the suspect for sexual assault or touching.
At the end of an investigation entrusted to the gendarmes of the L'Isle-Adam research brigade, the prosecution decided on March 12 to open a judicial investigation and to seize an investigating judge.
The swimmer had been taken into custody the day before by the gendarmes.
The former AAS swimmer Sarcelles had clearly denied any involvement in the facts.
Guy Canzano, at the head of the club for 52 years, dismissed any responsibility on his part, questioning the testimony of his ex-swimmer.
"I speak so that it does not happen again"
Contacted through her lawyer, Me Nathalie Kerdrebez-Gambuli, Julie Boursier did not wish to speak about the progress of the case.
She had confided at length in July 2020 in the Parisian, describing her alleged attacker as a swimmer "known to break into girls' cabins".
“With me, it went crescendo.
He started to touch my breasts, put his hands on my buttocks, before locking himself in the cabins with me.
There, there were the digital penetrations, then the rapes.
He stuck my fingers in the doors, blocked me against the walls… ”, she had testified.
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The swimmer, "persuaded not to be believed", had, she said, buried her memories before they resurface, plunging her into a depression. The young woman had made a suicide attempt in 2016. She then needed two years of psychological follow-up to decide to cross the threshold of the Montsoult gendarmerie and file a complaint. “I just want him to understand that he's not allowed to treat women like that,” she said. I speak so that it does not happen again. Me, it's already over, I'm going to live my whole life with it, ”she confided.
