2023-10-20 07:00:05
In a little less than a year now, Paris will host the 2024 Olympic Games. France will then be scrutinized by cameras around the world, making this event a unique opportunity to rethink the rules of the game and review our copy in terms of violence in sport.
Indeed, the multiplication of “affairs” and their media impact now force us to have a double collective responsibility: that of combating violence and calling for the creation of a safe sporting environment for all; and that of refusing just as much “image” trials held outside the judicial precinct, expeditious and provoked by orchestrated and unverified denunciations.
For a long time, too long, a guilty omerta has reigned within sports clubs. Who could, however, believe that sport was not just as affected as other areas by physical, psychological or sexual violence against children?
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Today, both the public authorities and the sports movement, from the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (Cnosf) to the small neighborhood club, including the federations, have become aware of the problem. Families are also looking for an ever healthier environment, and it is primarily thanks to them that those around children are now made aware of this major problem and that progress is possible.
Express freely
Given the seriousness of the events and their devastating consequences, it is essential that victims be able to freely express themselves about what they experienced with trusted people able to hear their words. But the issue is clear: it is not just a matter of preventing and punishing acts of violence. We must also continue the transformation of a system that guarantees the rights, freedoms and interests of all its stakeholders and, as the Children’s Foundation points out, treat violence in sport as a subject that is part of the continuity of that of ordinary educational violence (VEO).
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This violence is protean and must find a global response, both in professional and amateur spheres. In February 2020, the Ministry of Sports launched a first convention on the prevention of sexual violence in sport, a decisive step in giving long-term follow-up to the free speech movement.
While the work of the commission of inquiry relating to the identification of operational failures within the various players in the sporting world is underway at the National Assembly, the upcoming Games must serve as a driving force for the launch of the new 2024-2027 interministerial plan against violence against children. The main axes of this plan, which succeeds those of 2017-2019 and 2020-2022, having contributed to freeing speech but still remain insufficient, were presented by the government. It is a movement that we must continue and intensify, particularly in view of the 2024 Olympic Games.
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