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Sexual violence: the Ministry of Sports launches its major consultation

2020-02-20T17:33:08.398Z


Following the blast in recent weeks, will be held this Friday the National Convention for the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Sport. The start of a real revolution?


A fortnight ago the scandal of sexual violence in sport broke out in the open, with some testimonies relayed by the daily L'Equipe breaking the omerta surrounding the subject so far. And with figurehead figure skater Sarah Abitebol's book accusing one of her former trainers of raping her when she was fifteen. A great movement for the liberation of speech that the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu had entrusted to the Figaro not to want to be without tomorrow. Nor without giving birth to real measures to avoid as much as possible such abuses, even if, unfortunately, zero risk will never exist.

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"The mobilization of the federations is essential with the appointment of referents up to the level of each sports association who could receive the testimonies of the victims for questions of ethics or integrity in the exercise of their passion or function, confided to us then the minister. We will also work to strengthen the delegation contracts of the federations to be proactive and no longer wait until there are ten scandals identified in a federation to act. It is also because these tools are lacking today in the link between the ministry and the federations and that we have not all been vigilant enough on these themes. We need to build measures and processes with the federations, the state, mayors and community leaders who finance associations. ” A willingness, very asserted, of the Ministry of Sports to (re) take control of the subject while certain voices - including that of Didier Gailhaguet, the president of the French federation of ice sports - did not hesitate to question the action of some of Maracineanu's predecessors.

Marlène Schiappa and Nicole Belloubet in support

This Friday, the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) will therefore be holding the National Convention for the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Sport, which will serve as a very broad consultation of the various players in the sports world in order to "act together", to to repeat the minister's leitmotif. It is well aware that everything can only start from federations. Some had already taken certain measures to combat this scourge, but others were still too far behind, with guilty blinkers. From 9 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., there will be a succession of different highlights, with speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds, such as gynecologists, endocrinologists and representatives of the justice system, including the Keeper of the Seals Nicole Belloubet. In the early afternoon, Marlène Schiappa, the Secretary of State responsible for equality between women and men, will also give a speech.

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The stated aim of this agreement: to collect testimonies, experiences and activate the right levers in order to set up an adapted prevention plan, but also to implement a support policy for victims to allow them to speak more easily. , to be listened to and heard, to study the possible legal proceedings - with the hypothesis of an aggravated penal sanction ... Without forgetting to look into the thorny question of the relationship between coach and trained, with as great witness Catherine Moyon de Baecque, French athletic champion who had been the first in 1993, denounced these sexual assaults, of which she herself had been the victim. At the time, his position had been isolated. Today, this National Convention - which will continue in May with an act two - wants to put an end to this isolation and creates a real impetus so that all the federations acquire the means to fight effectively against these drifts.

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Source: lefigaro

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