“You screwed me up” … Victim of sexual abuse for two years, Sarah Abitbol tells of her ordeal in a book

A book to break 30 years of silence, “raise your head and heal”. Sarah Abitbol denounces, in Such a long silence, to be released on January 30 and Obs got
the good sheets, the sexual abuse of Gilles Beyer, her trainer between 1990 and 1992. She tells there how, then aged 15, the one she calls “sir” O wakes her in the middle of the night to “kiss her, even more “, to” do horrible things until sexual abuse “.

The multiple French figure skating champion also explains how the man, under the guise of his coaching work, succeeds in arousing no suspicion among the teenager’s relatives. “For two years, you regularly tell my mom,” Tonight, I’m babysitting Sarah to train her. ” And you raped me in the parking lot, the locker room and in nooks and crannies of the ice rink that I never even suspected existed. “

Abitbol has warned the Ministry of Sports

Once a medalist, Sarah Abitbol intends to take advantage of the weight she thinks she then has to contact the Sports Ministry and alert about Beyer, then still the owner of a club. “He answered me and said, ‘Look, I’m going to watch what’s going on, I’m going to check if there’s a file. And I’ll call you back.’ He called me back two days later and he said to me: “listen Sarah, yes there is a file. But we are going to close our eyes”, “she said in an interview granted in parallel to the Obs . Contacted by our colleagues, the former Abitbol coach said he had already explained himself before the courts.

These revelations echo the revelations of everyday life The Team, which publishes the same day a vast file on sexual violence in the world of figure skating and where three former high level skaters decide to break the omerta.

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