In a message posted on his account Twitter this Monday, the assistant to the marie de Paris in charge of sport Pierre Rabadan, announced that the City was going to seize the Public Prosecutor on facts of embezzlement in the use of tennis courts.
This announcement follows a Parisian survey published on Monday which reveals, with supporting video, clandestine tennis lessons given by “pirate teachers”. This with the complicity of the stadium guards who would puncture a commission on the amount received by the teachers for giving lessons.
An illegal practice given that since 2004, only associations have the right to provide private or group lessons.
Several hundred teachers would be affected by this practice which would be more and more widespread in the capital.
A lucrative business
In his investigation, the Parisian reports a juicy business since on the only sports complex Henri-de-Montherlant, located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, which has seven tennis courts, the clandestine teachers would not receive less than 25,000 euros per month at them all. The guards, meanwhile, would pocket nearly 1,500 euros to close their eyes and allow the teachers free access to the grounds.
Actions that make opposition elected officials cringe, such as Samia Sabat-Karam (LR) and who deplores the fact that “these pirate teachers take all the slots that we leave for the public”, specifying to our colleagues from Le Parisien that they were going to intervene on the subject at the next Council of Paris at the beginning of October.
For the teachers – some of whom do not have diplomas or insurance to cover a possible problem with their student – as for the guardians, the game therefore seems to be over soon.