French tennis champion at the end of the 1980s, Isabelle Demongeot was one of the first to break the omerta. In 2005, the former world number 35 lodged a complaint against his former trainer Régis de Camaret, guilty of "rape and touching of a fifteen-year-old minor" between 1977 and 1989.
During the trial of her coach in 2012, the former player delivers terrible and scabrous details on the actions of her former mentor when she was only 14 years old. The numerous and ancient facts - including the rapes of Isabelle Demongeot - being prescribed, Camaret, then aged 70, was sentenced on appeal to ten years in prison for the rapes of two minor residents of his club in Saint-Tropez.
Sarcelles tennis coach sentenced to eighteen years in prison
More recently, tennis has been hit by another scandal. On January 24, Andrew Geddes, former coach at Sarcelles and Levallois, was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for "rape and sexual assault on four of his former players, aged 12 to 17 at the time of the events".
The coach, now 53, allegedly used blackmail and physical and psychological violence against young girls assaulted in 1999 and 2005. The youngest complainant accused him of having raped her between 1999 and 2001 when she was only 12 years old when the facts began. Three other women, aged 15 to 17 at the time, also said that they had been sexually assaulted and raped several times between 2001 and 2005.
Football splashed at the start of the year
On August 11, 2017, a swimming trainer from the Clamart club (Hauts-de-Seine) was charged under an open judicial investigation for “sexual assaults on minors under 15 years of age and by person having authority ". Facts, if they were proven, committed between 2003 and 2014.
At the start of the year, it was football that was splashed this time. A 46-year-old father is prosecuted for "rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and corruption of minors" on players of FC Magnanvillle (Yvelines) whom he coached. Five victims between the ages of 14 and 16 were identified for incidents dating back to 2016 and 2017. The man was taken into custody.
