The former tennis player in Tunisia Selima Sfarwho was in the world top-100 in the 2000s, admitted in an interview with the French sports newspaper L’Équipe that she was raped since she was 12 and a half years old by her coach Regis de Camaret, who was sentenced in 2014 to ten . years in prison for rape.
“When I was 12 and a half years old, Regis de Camaret abused me” for “almost three years,” Sfar said.
Regis de Camaret, who was a prestigious technician, was convicted of aggravated rape of two minor former students. Another twenty-six former players, including the former number 2 of French tennis Isabelle Demongeottestified to sexual assault and rape, according to the prescribed facts.
Returning from Bordeaux airport from Tunis, “it was one in the morning, he stopped on the road and started touching me,” she said. Selima Sfar. “Back then I didn’t know what was going on, I didn’t understand anything.”
“I was paralyzed, I couldn’t move. I guess it was a way to see if I will react or not. I was in shock, it’s like you connected a 220 volt computer to 550. You’re paralyzed,” she said.
“We kept going and got to his house late. Upstairs was his son and his room, I was sleeping on the sofa bed downstairs. I fell asleep and an hour or two later, I woke up to him” he me Then it went from touching to raping, very quickly,” she explained.
He didn’t tell anyone for years, went to England and eventually “decided not to have a manager.”
“It took me 25 years to admit it to myself, 35 years to say it publicly. I respect Isabelle Demongeot and all the women who spoke. I understand that we have to do it when we do it,” he said about his silence then . .
During the Camaret process, Selima Sfar he claims to have “fallen into a real depression”.
“My parents and my relatives told me: ‘Good thing you’re strong, you won’t let that happen’. You have no idea the damage it does to me every time I hear that, the shame I have. Said he told me that I was a coward and weak. I lived this during the whole process. Damn. I had dark thoughts,” he explains now, at 46 years old.
Selima Sfarwhose career spanned from 1993 to 2008, first spoke about her trauma to her psychologist and recounted “lying on the couch and spending 48 hours in the dark crying.”
Sportingly, she reached the world top 100 of the WTA, the professional circuit, in 2001, but “every time I was about to get a great victory, I was paralyzed,” she revealed.
Source: La Verdad
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