Ligue 1 – St-Etienne
The Saint-Étienne public prosecutor’s office does not initiate proceedings in the case of the hazing of 2 young players from the AS Saint-Étienne training center.
The Saint-Étienne prosecutor’s office announced on Friday that it was not taking legal action in the case, revealed by The team, the hazing of 2 young players from the ASSE training center, of which 2 of the accused were excluded by the club. “No complaint was lodged by the parents, civilly responsible, in agreement with their children (aged 14 and 15) “, at the end of the gendarmerie investigation, said the city’s public prosecutor, David Charmatz.
While the club had until then indicated that the improvised hazing, during which the young residents were beaten with sticks by 3 of their elders, also minors, had taken place on the evening of July 24, shortly after the final of the Coupe de France lost by ASSE (0-1 against PSG), the prosecution indicated that “The facts occurred in July 2020, on a date which has remained unclear”.
Reminder to the law
He stressed that the leadership of the Greens had “Took disciplinary action by breaking the training agreement in advance for two of the respondents, who have therefore now returned to their department of origin (Seine-Saint-Denis), the third was temporarily laid off for two weeks ”.
The prosecutor considered that the disciplinary sanction of the 2 excluded had “Constituted a sufficient response”. “The third, who joined the ranks of trainees at the end of his sanction, will be summoned before a delegate from the prosecutor specializing in minors to be notified, at the courthouse, of a solemn reminder to the law”, continued the head of the Stéphanois prosecution.