Skating: Didier Gailhaguet, forced to resign from the federation in early 2020, has the French state condemned

The former French skating boss, Didier Gailhaguet, had the State condemned to pay him 5,000 euros in moral damages for having “pressured” to obtain his resignation from the federation in early 2020 because of a scandal of sexual violence within the discipline. In this consulted decision, the administrative court of Paris considers that the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu “exerted pressure (…) decisive” to bring her to resign, preventing the French Ice Sports Federation “from speaking out freely on the subject “. .

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