Finishing fourth in the Paris Paralympic Games marathon, Rosa Murcia Gangloff, filed a complaint against the Béziers athletics club (BCAM), for harassment and discrimination, with the public prosecutor’s office in Narbonne in Aude where she lives.
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Sidelining, moral harassment and discrimination linked to their disability. Rosa Murcia Gangloff claims to have been the victim of moral harassment for three years from the president of the Béziers athletics club, another coach and the club secretary.“They constantly reproach me. The last time, they came to the stadium to ban me from training the juniors. I had around twenty on the field. Most of them were in tears because he came ‘attack’.
Recently, he sent me to occupational medicine to have them declare me unfit, in relation to my vision.
Athlete and coach in Béziers
“He is looking for every means to get me out of the club. This summer, during the games, on August 19, when we are left to INSEP, they sent me a letter asking me to return to work on September 4 even though they knew that I was on internship and that I was participating in the Games on the 8. Two days before the marathon, they “sent an email saying that my new mission would be to no longer take care of cadets and infants but of toddlers.”
They don’t send me any new athletes. The only ones I have are the old ones, and those who come to me through word of mouth. If I don’t have an athlete, I don’t have a job. It’s a way of putting myself out there.
Paralympic athlete, coach
She also denounces discrimination linked to her disability. “They went to see the elected officials of the Béziers sports department, saying that I could not train the athletes because I am visually impaired. I have blindness in one eye, but the other works. They went to the kids and told them that if they continued to train with me, they wouldn’t get their license. I can’t take it anymore, it’s been going on for three years.” confides the athlete to France 3 Occitanie.
The visually impaired athlete denounces the club director and other assistants who would seek to oust him. A revenge in response to a position taken after the ouster of the former president of the club following cases of rape and sexual assault.
She filed a complaint against X with the Narbonne prosecutor in Aude.
The club, when contacted, did not wish to respond to our requests.
Written with Paul Jorge and Valérie Banabéra.
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