“There’s a robust resistance”: who’s Jean-Yves Prigent, the canoe-kayak baron accused of sexual assault

2024-05-28 04:35:46

The ship’s world is in shock, but it surely has chosen to stay silent. Jean-Yves Prigent, former world champion (group member K1, 1977) and a really influential determine within the self-discipline, is accused of sexual assault on younger individuals. The 70-year-old man accepted the info and his trial was scheduled for July 12, two weeks earlier than the beginning of the Olympic Video games. Nonetheless, in Vaires-sur-Marne, the coaching floor for the French pole, the headquarters of the federation and the longer term Olympic website, but in addition in Brittany the place the accused lives, just a few tongues have been launched.

When the investigation into “sexual assault on a toddler over 15 years of age by an individual ready of authority” was opened on the finish of April, an explosion hit the self-discipline. Jean-Yves Prigent is claimed to have attacked two 16-year-old boys throughout an internship in March within the city of Châteauneuf-sur-Cher (Centre-Val de Loire).