A former coach and manager of several football clubs in the Lyon area, who was also a volunteer at OL, is on trial from this Wednesday in Lyon for rape and sexual violence against several minor players.
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A former football club manager and former OL volunteer tried for rape of minor players before the Rhône Assize Court.
This 67-year-old man is accused of having abused his position to rape three boys aged around ten between 1989 and 1996 and of having committed other sexual assaults on minors between 1993 and 1998 and in 2018, according to a court document consulted by AFP.
He must appear from this Wednesday, November 6 and until Friday, November 8 before the Rhône Assize Court and faces 20 years in prison.
“We have a real emblematic trial, with shattered victims, the real profile of predatory pedophile, and an institution that fails to react“, commented Maître Agnès Bouquin, who defends one of the victims.
The alleged facts all take place in an educational or coaching context. of minors dismissed from football clubs, and took place in particular during travel around away matches, according to this document. The accused was a coach and then manager of the Martel Caluire club between 1981 and1998, then was manager of AS des Buers in Villeurbanne between 2016 and 2021. He then volunteered at Olympique Lyonnais between 2018 and 2021.
“There are hundreds of children who have been in contact with this person”relieves Me Agnès Bouquin, saying she fears that there are many victims in this case who have not been identified to date.
We are quite terrified by the loneliness of these children in the face of the attacker. None were able to report the facts to anyone within the club, whatever the club and the era. It was justice that sought them
In 2020, a victim finally decided to report him after meeting him again in a fortuitous manner. The facts were prescribed but his complaint of rape had triggered the opening of an investigation, which made it possible to identify the other victims. One has become a civil party, and at least one other must become a civil party during the hearing.
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