The coach of the women’s volleyball team of the Pays de Vienna, in Isère, has been charged in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) and imprisoned for “rape of a minor” and “acts of torture and barbarism”, Agence France-Presse reported on Friday, September 13, from the public prosecutor’s office.
Maximilien de Parmentier, 37, who is presumed innocent, has been in custody since Thursday. The victim, now 18, who has been subjected to these assaults since she was 13, speaks of perverse and sadomasochistic relationships. She filed a complaint at the Mulhouse police station in July. “So far, only one victim has been identified.”According to the public prosecutor’s office in the city of Haut-Rhin. As for the accused, “The investigators, of course, worked in his environment and in particular in the volleyball clubs where he could officiate”, specifies the same source, specifying that “The man partially admitted the facts”.
The events reported by the victim took place over a long period, from the age of 13 to 17. It was the investigators of the Mulhouse interdepartmental judicial police service (SIPJ) who worked on the case and arrested the man on Tuesday at his home in the Rhône.
Following the creation of VC Valenciennes in 2015, the northern volleyball coach had just signed for the Isère club Pays viennois, whose team plays in the first division. According to a source close to the investigation, the events began in Drôme, where the coach had been in charge for six years at the Romans-sur-Isère club, before moving on until recently to Alsace, in Mulhouse.
