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March 4 – FIFA’s Ethics Committee has issued a lifetime ban on Patrick Assoumou Eyi for sexual abuse. The previous coach of the Gabon U-17 males’s nationwide staff has additionally been handed a CHF1 million effective.
In issuing the judgement, FIFA mentioned Eyi (pictured) was discovered “responsible of abusing his place and committing repeated acts of sexual abuse in opposition to a number of gamers…
“The investigation into Mr Eyi considerations complaints from no less than 4 soccer gamers who accused him of sexual abuse between 2006 and 2021. Most of those incidents occurred whereas the gamers have been minors.”
In Might 2022 FIFA prolonged an investigation into alleged systematic sexual abuse of under-age gamers in Gabon by opening formal proceedings in opposition to 4 officers.
Eyi was alleged to be the primary perpetrator. He was coach of the nationwide under-17 staff till 2017; league official Serge Mombo and coaches Triphel Mabicka and Orphee Mickala have been the opposite three beneath investigation.
The probeopened after British newspaper The Guardian reported statements by alleged victims that they have been lured to Eyi’s residence which he referred to as the ‘Backyard of Eden’.
Eyi, who was technical director of the Gabonese FA, was suspended by the nation’s FA, and FIFA prolonged that suspension worldwide and provisionally to the opposite three officers.
“These sanctions have been imposed in reference to ongoing felony investigations,” FIFA mentioned in an announcement on the time.
FIFA ethics investigators had obtained a criticism from the worldwide gamers union FIFPRO, which has mentioned abuse of underage boys in Gabon was “deeply embedded” there and was “an open secret that was not addressed for years.”
The union additionally alleged individuals “with shut ties” to the Gabonese FA made threats to gamers and witnesses through the investigation.
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