An educator was sentenced to six years in prison for touching a minor while he was dismissed from the FFF despite a first conviction.
This Tuesday, the Lyon Criminal Court sentenced Anthony Freyssenet to six years in prison for a sexual assault on a 9-year-old boy. This young man of 29 years is known in the world of football in the Loire since he was an educator at the club L’Etrat Sportif, near Saint-Etienne. But this file poses a problem because it had a history.
In 2020, he had already been sentenced by the Lyon Criminal Court to three years in prison suspended and prohibited from any professional activity in connection with young people for touching a multitude of minors between 2014 and 2017. However, he had everything even been able to take a directing license at the French Football Federation in 2020-2021 then in 2021-2022.
“Why did you nevertheless return to the stadiums? asked the judge during the trial, as reported Progress. A friend asked me. At first I said no. And then I was too nice and said yes. » Despite his first conviction, Anthony Freyssenet was therefore able to find himself leading while being close to young people aged 9 to 14. “I like working alongside children, teenagers with a real learning mission » he confided in an interview found on the site of the Loire club.
Licensed FFF when he had been sentenced
It’s rather cold in the back especially after his reaction this Tuesday in court. “I’m attracted to children, it’s not good and I have to take care of myself” explained this predator in front of the judge. The Lyon daily also tells us that the prosecutor declared herself “very worried. More than a year after the events, the defendant has not changed. He always presents himself as a little boy who fails to grow up and puts himself on an equal footing with his victims. He goes even further by infantilizing his actions, which he presents as child’s play. The reality of this file is that he is an adult, who drinks alcohol, searches for child pornography videos on the internet and selects his victims like a predator..
A case that will be a bit of a task while the Ministry of Sports is carrying out an audit at the FFF. “This will be an opportunity to show that the FFF does not do anything, particularly in terms of checking the integrity of supervisors in clubs in the context of the protection of licensees and the fight against all forms of violence » yet affirmed Noël Le Graët in an interview in The Parisian this Wednesday. This therefore shows the path that remains to be accomplished because Anthony Freyssenet could well have been dismissed from the FFF when he had been convicted for the first time.