Sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday and a fine of 2,500 euros for corruption of a minor and recording of child pornography images, Bruno Martini will never again be able to take out a license from the French handball federation.
He will no longer be able to play or be a manager.
“During an extraordinary meeting held at the end of the day, the Board of Directors of the French Handball Federation unanimously decided to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Bruno Martini, a member of the Federation , given the seriousness of the offenses for which he was convicted.
The French Handball Federation wishes to renew all its support for the victim and his family,” the federation said at the start of the evening.
Nodjialem Myaro, the president of the Women's League and representative of women's handball within the body told us what these disciplinary proceedings will be: “We have positioned ourselves unanimously.
In view of the gravity of the facts, we cannot accept that Bruno Martini continues to have a license within the federation.
“It is a life suspension which should therefore soon fall on the former double world champion.
Bruno Martini was the subject of an investigation opened in June 2020 by the Paris public prosecutor's office and entrusted to the brigade for the protection of minors (BPM).
The ex-player and general manager of PSG Handball had, at that time, discussed via Snapchat with several minors.
He used this social network to exchange with a teenager, aged 12 at the time, nude photos.
Bruno Martini had then invited him to his Parisian home for a sexual relationship, without knowing, according to him, the precise age of his interlocutor.
The teenager would have changed his mind once at the bottom of the former player's building before returning home in a VTC paid for by the ex-handball player.