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"I pushed him away, but he always came back": the woman who accuses the jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot of rape testifies

2021-05-17T05:07:32.658Z


The indictment for rape of the star jockey is a blast in the racing world. We met the 22-year-old who


On Wednesday, the star jockey with three golden whips, Pierre-Charles Boudot was indicted for rape and suspended for three months by France Galop. His judicial control forbids him to appear in the department of Oise, in particular at the Chantilly stables, where for several weeks we have been talking about the “affair”, the “tease”, the “easy girl”. Crude words to describe the young 22-year-old woman who filed a complaint on February 19, 2021 at the gendarmerie of Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes). This woman, we met her, before her confrontation with the one she accuses. His testimony will also be broadcast on the program "Stade 2", this Sunday (8:05 pm) on France 3.

Sophie (the first name has been changed) is not from the horse world.

A rider, she found a job in a stable in Chantilly.

On Wednesday February 17, 2021, after a horse show in Cagnes-sur-Mer, an aperitif is organized in the stables.

“It was a night out with young people, we were alcoholic,” admits Sophie.

According to him, the drug, ketamine - used to anesthetize horses - is circulating.

The evening continues in a studio, above the boxes.

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“I don't know who told him where we were, but Pierre-Charles Boudot has arrived…” she says. According to Sophie, throughout the evening, the jockey, with whom she had a consensual relationship in the past, is urgent. “It started to be tactile, in intimate places, I pushed it away several times. He would have insisted. “He put my hand under my dress, touched my buttocks. I pushed him away, but he kept coming back, I told myself that at some point he was going to understand and stop. "

Around 3 a.m., Sophie leaves the party in the company of Pierre Bazire, another professional rider she has a crush on and who lodges her for the night.

He was indicted Wednesday for "non-denunciation of a crime".

“Pierre-Charles Boudot came with us, yet I had asked him on several occasions to come home.

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"He arrived, he put himself above me"

Sophie stops her story, bursts into tears. "I'm really going to have to explain to you when?" She asks us, upset. She continues. “Pierre

(Editor's note: Bazire)

took the sofa bed, I put on a T-shirt and I got into bed. Pierre-Charles Boudot arrived, he put himself above me. She continues. "I said several times that I didn't want to, I was scared, my brain blocked, I blocked everything, I let myself be done so as not to be in pain, I said no four times , I pushed him back with my leg… ”

She cries, repeats, "I said no, no".

“I didn't want to remember, I wanted it to go quickly.

As soon as that was done, I fell asleep… ”In the morning, Pierre-Charles Boudot is no longer there.

“The sheets were on the floor, the bed had moved, I knew something had happened but I didn't really know what,” says Sophie.

I lay on the foot of the bed for over an hour, I didn't want to notice.

I had extremely bad spine, I noticed that I had bruises on the shoulders, the thighs and the buttocks… ”On the photos which we could see, marks are visible on the body of the young person wife.

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Sophie says she then holed up in the friends' apartment. “I was just washing myself, I felt dirty…” The next day, she filed a complaint with the gendarmerie. Like Marie (the first name has been changed), in October 2018, for facts dating back to 2015. One evening in August, the 18-year-old girl at the time went to have a drink with a friend in a nightclub in Deauville. “Pierre-Charles Boudot is there with friends, we chat over a drink. »Rider, trainer's daughter, Marie knows the jockey. "He had flirted with me at parties, I had made him understand that I was not interested. "

Marie explains to us that she then felt bad.

“I had this feeling of no longer controlling my body.

»She assures us that this is not the effect of alcohol.

“I was like an automaton, I saw the scene without being able to act.

»She speaks of« flashes ».

“I am in the car with him, not knowing how I got there, then in his apartment.

"He started to undress me, my body couldn't defend itself.

Marie, who had "never had sexual relations before that evening", speaks of rape.

“The next day he drove me back to my hotel.

"It's the same way to proceed"

"Shameful", Marie will wait until 2018 to file a complaint.

“After I told my parents everything, because that was the only way out.

In this case, Pierre-Charles Boudot, confronted twice with his alleged victim, was placed under the status of assisted witness.

The young woman thinks "to have been drugged".

“I did some research to understand why that night I was unable to react, I saw that ketamine had this type of effect.

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Ketamine is this substance that Sophie says she took on the evening of February 17, 2021. “It's the same way of doing things, the same kind of context, pretty girls, black holes, flashes, very different from what they may experience in parties where there is alcohol, ”says Maître Justine Devred, Sophie's lawyer.

Contacted, Maître Florence Gaudillière, counsel to Pierre-Charles Boudot, did not respond to our requests but specified in a press release that his client, who “fiercely denies the facts”, filed a criminal complaint “with the conviction that this new denunciation was orchestrated to serve as a support for the first one ”.

"The entourage of Pierre-Charles Boudot wanted to pass me off as the frightened virgin, the Catholic who had had a relationship outside of marriage and who wanted to wash her honor", Pointe Marie, supported by the Colosse aux pieds d'Argile association .

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Sophie talks about pressures. “They make me feel like I'm the bad one. My boss called me several times to tell me that I did not realize how serious things were for this jockey. His employer also organized a meeting between Pierre-Charles Boudot and me. Stage 2 will produce an audio document of this meeting, where the employer, who did not respond to our requests, notably tries to reconcile Sophie with her alleged rapist. On Friday, France Galop suspended the license of Pierre-Charles Boudot, its star jockey, for 3 months.

Source: leparis

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