Patrice S., former Paralympic champion converted into a masseur-osteopath, was again indicted on Tuesday for additional suspicions of rape and sexual assault which he disputes, AFP learned on Friday February 4 from a judicial source, confirming Team information.
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According to the sports daily, he is being prosecuted for a rape and five sexual assaults he allegedly committed on patients in his Paris office, between 2019 and the summer of 2021. “
He disputes the facts. It is a procedure which causes him enormous harm because he is perfectly identifiable in the press and finds himself overnight without a profession and, because of his disability, in the greatest difficulty to exercise a new profession
, "reacted with AFP his lawyer Me Ian Knafou.
He was placed under judicial supervision and can no longer exercise the time of the investigation, according to his lawyer.
"
He's an extremely combative person, he intends to face this new ordeal
", added the advice of this former Paralympic champion, blind following a bullet received in the head at 6 years old during a game of hunt.
He had already been indicted for rape and sexual assault and placed under judicial supervision, in June 2021, after the complaint of a first patient.
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The investigators subsequently launched a call for witnesses from his patients.
Patrice S. was a gold medalist at the Paralympic Games in Atlanta (1996) on the tandem cycling track, then silver medalist at the Paralympic Games in Athens (2004).