Alexandre Geniez left his teammates from the Total Energy team before the pre-season training camp in Spain.
And for a reason he would have preferred to keep to himself.
This Wednesday, he appeared before the Court of Rodez to answer the accusations of repeated domestic violence against the mother of his two children from whom he has since been separated.
In a relationship since 2013, he would have engaged, according to his ex-companion, in acts of violence from February 2020. Géniez only recognizes a throwing of a cellphone on a day of irritation.
Lucie Garrigues, his ex-girlfriend, explains that he received this laptop in his legs on November 7, stuck in a corner while Geniez shouted:
“You will understand, you will see what will happen to you. 10
days later, a new argument broke out. Exchanges recorded by the victim who produced 2 medical certificates: one, following a frontal hematoma resulting in 1 day of ITT and the other for a new hematoma on the forearm.
"I wonder what would have happened if my daughter hadn't been in the hallway when he took my arm,
" she told the court
.
Mr. Geniez also told me:
"I'm going to smash you!" It is a sentence that marks. »
During the hearing, the lawyer for the cyclist Me Bastien Auzuech disputes certain facts
“We recognize the threats… we dispute the physical violence.
Madame Garrigues always runs away from discussions… She never wanted to leave when the relationship was toxic”.
6 months' imprisonment with a simple suspended sentence due to the absence of a criminal record was requested by the prosecutor.
His lawyer himself pleaded for release “
It is a case against Mr. Geniez, he justifies himself. There was no investigation beyond the family circle.
The file is reduced to a trickle.
There are not enough building blocks.
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The judgment has been reserved for March 2, 2022. In the meantime, Alexandre Geniez will continue to prepare for his last professional season after eleven years in the peloton.
He has fourteen appearances in the three Grand Tours and sixteen professional victories.
