intimidation, pressure and embezzlement, the Gailhaguet years denounced in an inspection report – Liberation

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2023-06-03 20:27:46

At the end of the 130 hearings, the report of the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) constitutes an implacable indictment against the management of the former president. These facts have been reported to the courts.

Federation bank card used improperly, threats, lack of contract transparency, remuneration of sportsmen outside the nails: the management of the French Ice Sports Federation (FFSG) by Didier Gailhaguet is the subject of a damning report by the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research (IGESR), which reported the facts to the courts.

“The mission establishes the many shortcomings that marked the governance of the federation before 2020, some of which may be criminal”, summarized the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, in a tweet. These “failures” were reported to the public prosecutor.

Former omnipotent president of the FFSG, Didier Gailhaguet has officially not been in charge for three years, since he was forced to resign for covering up a coach implicated in rape and sexual assault.

But its management will perhaps now go through the justice box. This inspection had been decided in the wake of the election of the current president of the FFSG, Gwenaëlle Noury ​​in June 2022, very strongly suspected of having been guided by Didier Gailhaguet. The report confirms these suspicions, explaining that the election “was influenced” and “This approach was clearly aimed at allowing the resumption of control of federal governance by interposed leaders”.

At the end of the 130 hearings, this inspection report constitutes an implacable indictment against the management of the former president.

On the menu of facts reported to the criminal justice system: “use of the federation’s bank card for inappropriate expenses and sometimes without supporting documents”, “lack of transparency in the management of certain contracts for the provision of important services and advice with companies historically linked to the FFSG, for sometimes very high costs through opaque interpersonal relations with the former management and administrative team”.

Archives destroyed at the shredder

But also, “the accumulation of activities of an employeeof the FSSG with “that of president of a provider company” from 2014 to 2019, “non-regulatory methods of remuneration of high-level athletes and the activities of undeclared sports agents”, “opaque ticketing management” before 2020 as well as “threats and attempts to intimidate the current leaders”.

The icing on the cake: the destruction of archives at the “shredder», also criminally reprehensible, shortly before the end of the mandate of Didier Gailhaguet. He was then replaced by Nathalie Péchalat at the head of the federation.

But since the winter of 2020 and the Abitbol affair, the champion who said she was raped as a teenager by her former trainer Gilles Beyer, now deceased, the FFSG has not emerged from the crisis. “The effects of the 2020 crisis, which implicated more than twenty coaches for sexual and gender-based violence, are still very present.“, notes this report, evoking “cleavages” and “rivalries between clubs, between coaches, between disciplines, between former athletes”.

After the June 2022 election, during which outgoing Nathalie Péchalat clearly accused Didier Gailhaguet of pulling the strings, the FFSG continued to sink into crisis. “Succession of three treasurers and two general secretaries in 11 months“, notes the report. Among them, the former water ski champion Patrice Martin, secretary general ousted in October 2022, who had accused the head of the federation of “cronyism” and D'”between oneself“, considering that “many people” were still in contact with Didier Gailhaguet.

Latest episode and unexpected reversal of Gwenaëlle Noury ​​in May, concomitant with the end of the inspection report: she ousted six members of the office, close to Didier Gailhaguet. And explained that he suffered “pressures” et “bullying” emanating from him who wanted to make her his “puppet”.

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