Miscellaneous – Justice | Justice: the case that shakes Provençal tennis

A tennis referee was convicted in September 2021 of sexual assault on a 15-year-old Aixois. The attacker is however still in office despite his conviction

By Aurélie Féris-Perrin

With the word that is freed in all fields and especially that of sport, it seems that the victims of sexual assault are finally heard after years of denial and omerta. The family and in particular Pierre’s father * do not say the opposite. It is the continuation of the procedures which they call into question. Their son aged 15 and a half at the time of the facts (in the night of May 9 to 10, 2015) was sexually assaulted by a referee of the league of Provence, housed at home at the request of this institution, during the Aix Cepac Open country which is held each year at the Aix Country Club, their son himself being a referee. The last evening, in the middle of the night, the then 25-year-old man allegedly forced Pierre to perform a fellatio, p

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