2024-03-06 16:00:00
For the moment, the exact nature of the facts with which Nellu Pop is accused is not known. One of the coaches of the French gymnastics team was suspended as a precautionary measure by the Ministry of Sports, which made a report to the prosecution. The ministry confirmed information initially revealed this Wednesday by France Info.
The facts were brought to the attention of the Ministry of Sports during an administrative investigation into the gymnastics federation. This was launched last May after a report by France 2 where six former gymnasts from the French team denounced physical or psychological violence emanating from coaches.
A discipline already shaken by several scandals
The facts concerning Nellu Pop were “reported to the public prosecutor,” said the ministry. Last May, the technical director of the French gymnastics center in Marseille, Vincent Pateau, sentenced to six months in prison for moral harassment, decided that he could no longer exercise any management function.
For several years, this sporting discipline has been shaken, in several federations around the world, by cases of sexual violence, as in the United States, of mistreatment linked to training, and certain gymnasts, most of the time women, have reported deprivations of food.
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