2023-12-10 13:37:30
Almost a year after his arrest, Christophe Moreau comes out of silence. Arrested on January 15, 2023 at his home in Porrentruy (Switzerland) for suspicion of domestic violence and death threats against his wife, Émilie, the former cyclist gave his version of the affair in the Swiss media Blick.
Without denying the facts, the Franco-Swiss deplores the conditions of his arrest, which according to him was heavy-handed and involved a consistent system. “I didn’t see anything coming,” he says. The noise is impressive, a huge crack! It’s an earthquake. I barely had time to go down one floor when three or four police officers appeared with machine guns, aiming lights fixed on the barrel, masked, helmeted, and shouting Police! Police ! Hands in the air, face down! Hands in the air !. You see straight away that it’s a special mission, the shock is total. »
As a reminder, Christophe Moreau was intoxicated at that time. Hunting rifles were seized from his home. Local newspapers then reported that the man in his fifties had been spotted on several occasions lurking near the home of his wife, from whom he had just separated. During telephone conversations, particularly with his daughters, he also made death threats.
“I’m going to kill you”
“It’s going to be terrible, it’s war. (…) I’m going to hire the biggest lawyer in Switzerland and I’m going to kill you, we’re going to kill each other, we’re going to destroy each other, he said. (…) “Your whore mother, I’m going to kill her. » It was in this context that the Intervention Group and Snipers then intervened.
According to him, the status of his wife, a member of Parliament and the relationship she had recently had at the time of the arrest, with Martial Courtet, a minister and therefore an important political figure, would have influenced the authorities. “The situation he found himself in had become unmanageable,” retorts Émilie Moreau to the Swiss media. No one can say what the police should have done. (…) I dare to hope that for a similar situation, concerning another person, the system put in place would have been the same. »
The former runner assures him, he “barks more than[il] don’t bite.” “I never took action, I was never physically violent towards my daughters and my ex-wife,” the former professional cyclist defends today. I have no history. »
Two months spent in a therapeutic center
“I am an Aries, a former professional cyclist, I have blood, character,” he continues in the columns of the Swiss media. But under no circumstances could I have taken action. Of course I regret those words. I didn’t think so. When you have two grams of alcohol in your blood, you cannot have the same discernment as in a normal state. »
After a month of incarceration, Christophe Moreau, fourth in the Tour de France in 2000, was transferred to a health center where he agreed to follow a therapeutic program to treat his alcohol addiction in particular. He was released two months later and is now awaiting the date of a possible trial.
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