Laurent Horter died Monday at the age of 88.
President of Mulhouse Olympic swimming until 2017, which he had created in 1962, he had left the succession to his two sons, Franck, current president of MON, and Lionel, who officiates as coach.
The Alsatian club has trained in its basin the champions Amaury Leveaux, Laure Manaudou or Roxana Maracineanu, the current Minister Delegate in charge of Sports, the first French woman world champion in 1998 under the colors of the club.
The Horter family also played a role within the institutions of French swimming.
Marie-Octavie, the wife of Laurent Horter, was vice-president of the French Federation.
Lionel, he was national technical director in 2013-2014 and Franck representative in Europe of the equipment manufacturer Tyr.
A dispute with Yannick Agnel
The past few years have been more complicated for Mulhouse Olympic Natation, indicted for attempted fraud in May 2021 and which has lost the exclusive operation of its training center since last January.
The Alsatian club has also been cited in a dispute opposing it to ex-swimmer Yannick Agnel, also indicted in a completely different case for rape and sexual assault on the daughter of Lionel Horter for facts dating back to 2016. Last March, the two parties met before the Colmar Court of Appeal (Haut-Rhin).
The dispute concerned the non-payment of a year's contract, up to 60,000 euros for the former MON swimmer (2014-2016).
The decision should be known by the end of April.
In the first instance, the double Olympic champion from London won by obtaining the execution of the contract and the payment of the 60,000 euros of unpaid premiums.
But MON, which does not intend to pay all of the sums in question, has appealed.