Former OGC Nice and AS Monaco player Patrice Evra reveals he was sexually assaulted during his teenage years
Chilling revelations. The former player of OGC Nice, AS Monaco or even OM, revealed to the British daily The temperature that he had been the victim, during his adolescence, of sexual assault on the part of a professor with whom he was going to sleep.
At that time, Patrice Evra was playing in a football club in Brétigny-sur-Orge in Essonne.
“The head teacher, believing that I was asleep, put his hands under my bedspread and tried to touch me, writes Patrice Evra in his autobiography. I knew what he was doing was wrong and tried to push him away and hit him. I was strong but I was also scared even though I couldn’t show him that I was scared of him. It lasted 10 or 15 minutes, like a fight. He was not joking and did everything to take my pants off. No words were spoken in the dark but he was touching himself and was sexually aroused. “
“I don’t want people to have pity”
40 years old, it is the first time that he broached this subject and admits having recently revealed it to his own mother, during a trip to Paris. “She was devastated, it was a complicated time for me, explains the one who also played for Juventus in Turin and Manchester United. I have yet to tell a few of my siblings and a few close friends. […] I don’t want people to have pity. It is a difficult situation. A mother does not expect to hear this from her own child. She sensed that something was wrong and asked me why I didn’t want to sleep in the professor’s house. It was only now that I am 40 years old that I told him. It was a big shock for her. Lots of anger. She said she was sorry. “
Patrice Evra also confides that he was contacted by the police when he moved to Monaco. Then 24 years old, the left side had refused to confirm accusations made by other children against the professor, for fear of reactions.