“Kissing someone against their will legally qualifies as sexual assault,” clarified the prosecutor to our colleagues. Jean Gachassin, he adds, “has not yet been heard, we first hear the witnesses. We then proceed to a psychiatric expertise for the author, psychological for the victim, as is customary in this type of case”.
After collecting the complaint, the gendarmes of the Bagnères-de-Bigorre research brigade, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, began to hear witnesses to the facts, which occurred during a seminar of the Rugby League in ‘Occitania. Former player of Lourdes and the French rugby team, Jean Gachassin was then president of the French Tennis Federation from 2009 to 2017.
