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No training, no subsidy: Lyon obliges sports clubs to fight against sexual violence

2023-06-08T13:54:45.677Z

Highlights: The mayor of Lyon wants all subsidized clubs to be formed from the start of the 2024 school year. In case of refusal, the associations concerned will no longer receive aid from the municipality. The municipality distributes 3 million euros each year to some 170 associations. The new rule also applies to clubs that benefit from the city's infrastructure, i.e. more than 500 associations, and that could be deprived of a field or gymnasium. It is aimed at leaders, supervisors, educators, coaches, who will have to follow several modules spread over the months.


To continue to receive subsidies from the town hall of Lyon (Rhône) in 2024, sports associations – managers, supervisors, educators


From the start of the 2024 school year, each Lyon sports club must have undergone training to learn how to better fight against sexist and sexual violence. An obligation that conditions the obtaining of a subsidy. The EELV mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, made the announcement earlier this week. In case of refusal, the associations concerned will no longer receive aid from the municipality, which distributes 3 million euros each year to some 170 associations.

This new rule also applies to clubs that benefit from the city's infrastructure, i.e. more than 500 associations, and that could be deprived of a field or gymnasium. "There must be prevention, training, awareness, in a sports environment that brings together conditions favorable to sexist and sexual violence," explains Julie Nublat-Faure, sports assistant.

The elected representative also intends to condition the allocation of subsidies to the creation of women's sections in sports associations: "This training is the second step. It is aimed at leaders, supervisors, educators, coaches, who will have to follow several modules spread over the months. The mayor of Lyon wants all subsidized clubs to be formed from the start of the 2024 school year.

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It seems very short as a deadline, but for Laouali Boueye, vice-president of the football club AS Montchat-Lyon, which has more than 1,000 members, it is the right method: "I think there is not even to discuss. Ending sexism and sexual violence must be everyone's business. The subsidy is nothing. We must go even further with economic sanctions or the closure of associations. »

In his club, Laouali Boueye, who has made this subject a fight, plans to put upposters around the fields next September. "It's not just the coaches or the players," he says, "you also have to inform the parents."

Source: leparis

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