Sexual violence in sport: National Assembly unanimously adopts law to better protect children

Sexual violence in sport: National Assembly unanimously adopts law to better protect children

From now on, club presidents will have the obligation to report risky behavior by educators to the state services, under penalty of sanctions.

A consensus. This Thursday 29 February the National Assembly definitively adopted unanimity a bill aimed at better preventing sexual violence against minors in sports clubs. The text proposed by the socialist deputies was voted without any modification, as the proposal had already been voted unanimously in the Senate.

More controls

This law will make background checks for sports educators annual. Therefore, bulletin number 2 of their criminal record and the automated judicial file of sexual or violent offenders (FIJAIS) will be checked every year.


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Furthermore, club presidents will have the obligation to report risky behavior by educators or any person in contact with minors to the state services, under penalty of sanctions.

This text on “Honourability in sport elaborated by the socialist senator Sebastiano Plawas created in collaboration with the former skating champion Sara Abitbol. She, who, in 2020, testified to the rapes she suffered from a former coach when she was a teenager. After the adoption of this law, you declared during a press conference: “We won’t give up anything ” For “save the new generation “.


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