AS Saint-Etienne : ASSE files a complaint after a hazing | ASSE News

Marie Mahé, published on Saturday August 01, 2020 at 11:00 p.m.

This Saturday, the AS Saint-Etienne club announced, via its official Twitter account, its intention to file a complaint after a hazing that would have gone wrong within its own training center. Three players could thus be sanctioned.

Dark affair near Saint-Etienne. Indeed, this Saturday, the elite club said, via a statement published on its official Twitter account, to have lodged a complaint, following a hazing that would have gone wrong within its own training center. This is how three players would be exposed to sanctions from their club, which speaks of “unacceptable facts which would have occurred in its training center last week”. Two young people have already been laid off as a precaution, before being summoned for an interview prior to a possible sanction. As for the third player, he was simply excluded, temporarily.

The management of the club is ready to “collaborate with the authorities”

For its part, the ASSE club, if it has actually lodged a complaint, it is “in front of the supposed seriousness of the incidents”, while the management of the Ligue 1 club has even said it is willing to “collaborate with authorities “. In its press release, the Saint-Etienne training also writes: “Fourth best training center according to the latest FFF ranking, the club cannot tolerate inappropriate acts contrary to the values ​​inscribed in its sports project of excellence allowing many young players to integrate the professional group. “According to what RMC Sport believes, this case concerns three young players aged between 15 and 16 years. During a hazing, two of them would have been victims of acts and gestures that could affect their physical integrity, even if no injuries would be deplored.