2024-03-22 13:32:20
The current owner of the Ligue 2 club was sentenced this Friday March 22 to two years in prison, one of which was suspended, for sexual assault on six women and acquitted for the facts concerning the seventh complainant, “with the benefit of the doubt”.
The former president and current owner of Sco d’Angers (L2), Saïd Chabane, was sentenced this Friday March 22 to two years in prison, one of which was suspended for sexual assault. During the trial in December, the prosecutor asked the city’s criminal court to sentence Chabane to three years in prison, one of which was suspended, citing during his requisitions the “intolerable gestures” described by the civil parties. Chabane was acquitted with the “benefit of the doubt” for the facts concerning one of the seven complainants.
Owner of SCO Angers since 2011, Saïd Chabane, 59, was indicted in February 2020 for seven sexual assaults “committed by a person abusing the authority given to him by his position” on women at the time employees of the club or his charcuterie business. They had reported forced hugs and touching of the buttocks and chest. The complainants denounced facts spanning from 2014 to 2019, when they were, among other things, hostess, secretary or customer representative at the SCO in Angers.
The first four complaints collected agreed “on the operating method used by the author”, affirmed the public prosecutor of Angers, Eric Bouillard, at the time of the indictment. The magistrate then mentioned the use of “surprise” and “a certain constraint”, linked to the “respect” that the man inspired in his victims, to “touch their private parts”. Saïd Chabane’s lawyers did not wish to speak before the opening of the trial. Entangled in a succession of affairs and a catastrophic sporting situation, Saïd Chabane gave up his place as president of the club to his son, Romain, in March.
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