The French tennis player has filed a complaint against her former coach for rape and sexual assault.
According to Nice Matin information released on Wednesday August 31, French tennis player Fiona Ferro accuses her former coach Pierre Bouteyre of rape and sexual assault. The former coach of Alizé Cornet was indicted on August 18, again according to information from Nice Matin. An indictment following the complaint filed by 25-year-old tennis player Fiona Ferro for rape and sexual assault by a person in authority. Facts that would have been committed in Saint-Raphaël between 2012 and 2015, when the player was between 15 and 18 years old.
The 51-year-old tennis coach admitted "the materiality of the facts, but disputes the accusation of rape", according to the words of his lawyer, Maître Virginie Pin. He was placed under judicial control with obligation of care and prohibition to come into contact with the complainant. To this is added, for those who are still coaches, the ban on coaching minors. The mission of the investigation is to determine if other similar acts could have been committed on other players.
