Athlete Ophélie Claude-Boxberger's complaint for
"aggravated rape"
when she was a minor, against her ex-trainer and ex-father-in-law Alain Flaccus, was dismissed on August 24, we learned Tuesday with the parquet floor of Montbéliard (Doubs).
The 33-year-old athlete, suspended for doping at EPO, filed a complaint in October 2020 in Montbéliard for aggravated rape against Mr. Flaccus, for acts committed between 2002 and 2007.
The prosecutor of Montbéliard (Doubs), Ariane Combarel, noted in the version of the specialist in the 3,000 m steeplechase
“uncertainties and contradictions which do not allow to retain facts, dates and precise places allowing to characterize the offense
.
There are elements in his complaint, but doubt persists on both sides and the evidence is insufficient”
for criminal prosecution, she said.
Alain Flaccus, the athlete's former trainer, also his mother's ex-companion, and who is at the heart of Ophélie Claude-Boxberger's EPO doping case, has always denied any sexual abuse against him. .
“This classification without follow-up seems to me totally adapted to the procedure.
The rantings of Madame Claude have been swept away by the investigation and it is important that Mr. Flaccus regains his honor,”
his lawyer, Me Jean-Baptiste Euvrard, told AFP.
Ophélie Claude-Boxberger had also accused her former handyman of having injected her with EPO without her knowledge, during a preparatory course for the Doha Worlds-2019, in Font-Romeu.
She had tested positive for this substance in September 2019. But the Montbéliard court had already released Alain Flaccus in September 2021 for these facts.
He had changed version several times before finally saying he was totally innocent.
The middle-distance runner had even been ordered to pay him 2,500 euros in damages.
In April, the Council of State suspended the five-time champion of France for four years, two years more than what had initially been decided by the sanctions commission of the French Agency for the fight against doping (AFLD), for have tested positive for
