The former vice-president of the French Tennis Federation Jean-Pierre Dartevelle was sentenced Thursday to 10 years’ imprisonment by the Criminal Court of Doubs for rapes on a former player of almost 50 years younger. The sentence pronounced is in accordance with that required earlier in the evening by the Advocate General François Prélot, such as the complementary prohibition measure to exercise an activity related to minors. Mr. Dartevelle, 74, incurred 15 years in criminal imprisonment.
Questioned by the president to find out if he had understood the sentence that had been pronounced against him, Jean-Pierre Dartevelle replied “yes”. The Court found her guilty of rape against a young tennis player between September 2016 and March 2018, when she was 17 to 19 years old.
“The verdict was written, it was acted, and in any case, there was no place for a second for Jean-Pierre Dartevelle to exprehe” during these three days of trial, said his lawyer Marie -Alix Canu-Bernard after the statement of the deliberation. She also announced that a call will be made “tomorrow morning”.
“The civil party I represent and that I assist is recognized in its victim status and it is for her the essentials,” reacted to journalists the lawyer for the young woman, Benjamin Liautaud. “Today, with regard to my client, the moral constraint has been recognized and sanctioned. »»
Two diametrically opposed versions
At the hearing, the representative of the public prosecutor had also stressed that during the three days of trial, the accused “did not move an iota in his declarations”, while the parents of the victim, Now aged 25, “awaited confessions, regrets, excuses”. “She lies, she lies, she lies” launched the accused, designating the former tennis player. “For three days of hearing, I don’t know who I am. A manipulator? A monster? “, He added, saying to protest” against the rewriting of our history “by the young woman.
The septuagenarian, a small man and all dressed in black, had portrayed a “magnificent love story” with his accuser, a frail young woman. She had denounced rapes in 2018, describing a “constrained” relationship and explaining that she is the victim of “the grip” of this man very linked to her parents in the tennis world.
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