Faced with accusations of sexual violence in the skating world, the president of the French Ice Sports Federation, Didier Gailhaguet held a press conference on Wednesday to "reestablish a strict truth". He was offensive, explaining that the federation "this is not a bunch of sexual perverts" while the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu asked for his resignation outright, which Didier Gailhaguet refused. In response, he called the minister "judgmental."
"I am an imperfect man, but I am a clean man. 90% of the facts, I discovered them by the press "he justified himself, while asking" since when have we banned the presumption of innocence in our country? Didier Gailhaguet is accused of having covered the sexual assaults and rapes of former trainer Gilles Beyer on Sarah Abitbol.
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