According to The Telegrama gymnastics coach was sanctioned by the prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine last February, due to his inappropriate behavior with his young athletes. Complainants denounced inappropriate gestures and humiliating words. This renowned coach in the region, who no longer has the right to train minors for 10 years, denies the accusations and plans to appeal his sanction.
The administrative investigation resulted in a heavy sanction. According to The Telegrama gymnastics coach was suspended last February by the prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine for his “inappropriate behavior” with his young athletes. This coach, renowned in the region, was banned from training minors for ten years.
Several gymnasts denounced inappropriate actions on the part of their coach, aged around fifty and in charge of detection. The mother of one of the complainants speaks of “hands on the buttocks”, “children sitting on her knees or held by the waist”, “kisses on the cheek” and “very strong hugs”.
The gymnasts were “afraid of him and his reactions”
Other witnesses denounce an educator who was “too tactile”, sometimes making vulgar and humiliating comments when talking about the bodies of young athletes, who were “afraid of him and his reactions”. The suspended coach would be the target of a second investigation, this time carried out by the gendarmes.
The supervisor disputes the facts with which he is accused and plans to appeal his sanction. According to his lawyer, he still admits to having “perhaps uttered somewhat violent sentences, poorly accepted by young girls” but assures that he has “changed in his practices in recent years”.
