#MeToo on a sailing boat: a new disciplinary procedure has been opened against Kevin Escoffier

#MeToo on a sailing boat: a new disciplinary procedure has been opened against Kevin Escoffier

Already under the influence of a judicial investigation for facts “connected to sexual violence”, the skipper is in the crosshairs of a new disciplinary procedure.

In recent months, tongues have loosened about the behavior of Kevin Esoffier against women This Wednesday, August 9, the French Sailing Federation opened a new disciplinary procedure for “inappropriate behavior”against the 43-year-old skipper.

The latter is already under investigation for identical events, which occurred in May during the break of a regatta. A procedure that comes after the Federation cell has received new reports towards the athlete.

Already several testimonies of sexual harassment

This proceeding adds to the one opened on June 9, after the Federation seized the Paris prosecutor’s office for facts dating back to May, which involved a young member of its team, during a stopover of the Ocean Race in Newport.

The latter had not filed a complaint. The Paris prosecutor’s office then opened an investigation last July into the facts ” related to sexual violence »reveals theFrench media agency.

On June 13, The chained duck reported the testimony of four women who describe “repeated mistakes” of the Breton navigator towards women. One of them, for example, described the recommendations made to him: ” I was told not to be alone with him due to his sometimes inappropriate behavior towards women. »


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