the main point Was Amélie Mauresmo harassed by her partner, against whom she filed a complaint and with whom she is in the middle of divorce proceedings? This is what she argued before the Bayonne court.
Tuesday January 23, Amélie Mauresmo arrived discreetly at the Bayonne judicial court, to testify before the criminal chamber against his wife, Marie-Bénédicte Hurel. A closed-door trial “due to facts which concern the private sphere and the public personality of Amélie Mauresmo” as explained by her lawyer, Me Laurie Delpont.
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At the bar, the former tennis champion returned to the hell allegedly inflicted on her by the one with whom she has shared her life in the Basque Country since 2014. According to her lawyer, whose testimony was collected by France Blue the facts allow us to characterize moral harassment: blackmail, insults, often by SMS, daily humiliation. So much so that Mauresmo was prescribed 10 days of ITT (Total Incapacity for Work). Last September, Marie-Bénédicte Hurel was placed in police custody.
One of the defense lawyers, Thierry Sagardoytho, denounces for his part an “instrumentalization of an artificial complaint in the perspective of divorce” and requests acquittal. But the public prosecutor is asking for a ten-month suspended prison sentence against the wife of the current director of the Roland-Garros tournament.
