Former Numéro 2 of the French Tennis Federation (FFT), Jean-Pierre Dartevelle, appeared as of Tuesday, and this for three days, before the criminal court in Besançon (Doubs). He is accused of the violations, between September 2016 and March 2018, of a young tennis player, the hope of tennis of French women, a high -level athlete, who was between 17 and 19 years old at the time of the events.
The 25 -year -old girl today denounces a “grip relationship.” His lawyer, me Benjamin Liautaud, even emphasizes that this file is characterized by a “moral restriction”, citing the age gap, the vulnerability of the young woman and the de facto authority exercised by the accused. A “psychological grip” exerted on the victim, describing this relationship as a “form of prison of the mind.”
At 74, former athlete Jean-Pierre Dartevelle is well known. Former soccer player who played a dozen games in the first division with Sochaux at the end of …