2023-12-18 08:18:00
Sexual violence fileThe trial of the former president of the SCO of Angers opens this Monday, December 18, for accusations emanating from hostesses, secretaries or even account managers of the football club, between 2014 and 2019.
He is accused of seven sexual assaults “committed by a person abusing the authority conferred on him by his position”. Saïd Chabane, ex-president and current owner of the Angers football club (L2), appears from this Monday, December 18 before the city’s criminal court, for two days.
Owner of SCO Angers since 2011, Saïd Chabane, 59, was indicted in February 2020 following complaints from several women, at the time employees of the club or his charcuterie company. The complainants denounce facts spanning from 2014 to 2019, when they were, among other things, hostess, secretary or customer service representative at the SCO in Angers.
Use of “surprise” and “a certain constraint”
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.
In March 2024, Saïd Chabane must also be tried before the Bobigny criminal court for illegal exercise of the activity of sports agent and organized gang money laundering.
Arriving at the head of the club and in its capital in 2011, he was one of the main players in the spectacular recovery of the SCO on a sporting level during the years that followed, including a return to L1 in 2015.
But the club was relegated again at the end of the 2022-2023 season, one of the worst ever recorded in the French elite, notably marked by the departure of coach Abdel Bouhazama after making sexist remarks in the locker room.
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