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The Béziers athletics club is the target of a complaint for harassment and discrimination filed by Rosa Murcia Gangloff, fourth in the marathon for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
“I can’t hide the feeling of feeling upset when I go to work. I always wonder what they’re going to do to me,” confides Rosa Murcia Gangloff, who finished fourth in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games marathon on September 8. . On her return, while the children of the Béziers athletics club (BCAM, Béziers Cheminots Athlétisme Méditerranée) where she has been an employee for 12 years were delighted to find their “star” coach, a state graduate, the president of the club – who did not respond to our requests – allegedly verbally attacked him in front of parents and children. The last straw. The cup is full.
“Repeated moral harassment”
“It’s been going on for three years, it has to stop,” she confides, bruised, and suffering from eczema since September. Three years that the athlete who has just celebrated her 60th birthday has suffered, she says, “repeated moral harassment”, “discrimination” in relation to a pathology “that they don’t even know about”, and would be put on trial. deviation from meetings and the training and competition agenda. Rosa Murcia Gangloff points the finger at the president of BCAM, as well as another coach and the club secretary. She filed a complaint against X for harassment and moral violence with the Narbonne public prosecutor.
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“We went so far as to tell the sports department that I was incompetent because I couldn’t see anything, they think I’m blind,” says the visually impaired paraathlete. However, during a recent visit, his ophthalmologist did not issue any contraindication to the practice of his profession. “And in October, occupational medicine contacted by the club confirmed that I was fit.” But then why would Rosa Murcia Gangloff have become a target for the leaders of the BCAM?
Change of missions
“It all started after I took a position a little over three years ago to sideline the president following cases of rape and sexual assault within the club. However, the current leaders are loyal to this former president and, surely out of revenge, put obstacles in my way in front of the children. My involvement was systematically denigrated on August 19, when I had just left for the Games. Paralympics, the club sent me an email asking me to return to work on September 4, but they knew very well that I was running the marathon on the 8th. Two days before the event, I received another email informing me that. I had a new mission, which from now on I was no longer training the little ones but the baby birds. All this to destabilize me. Fortunately, my husband kept the emails. He only read them to me when I returned. there is an accumulation of things.”
“They decided to take away my 25 kids”
And added: “This year, there was no meeting at the start of the season, they decided to take away my 25 kids to give them to another person. I was warned that I would not I trained more the youngest children, the juniors and the cadets, as I had to train only the little ones.” And yet, in her contract, it is clearly stipulated that Rosa must train middle-distance athletes in all categories. Rosa who alerted the Occitanie athletics league, the Federation and the sports ministry, in vain. Rosa, who met the elected official in charge of Sports at Béziers town hall as well as former MP Emmanuelle Ménard. And which at the end of November should be received by Mayor Robert Ménard. But it is above all up to justice now to play.
