The French Sailing Federation (FFvoile) opened new disciplinary proceedings on Wednesday for “inappropriate behavior” towards women targeting skipper Kévin Escoffier, already the target of a judicial investigation for events that occurred in May with a young woman in the United States. during a race stopover.
“The Federation cell in charge of the fight against sexual violence has received reports concerning other inappropriate behavior by Kévin Escoffier towards women,” wrote the Federation in a text sent to AFP, specifying that this procedure was added to that opened in June, relating to “the incidents which occurred during the leg of The Ocean Race from Newport”.
These new testimonies, on which the Federation did not wish to comment at this stage, led “Jean-Luc Denéchau, president of the French Sailing Federation” to open new disciplinary proceedings.