Handball: Benoît Kounkoud sentenced for sexual exhibition

French international handball player Benoît Kounkoud was fined 4,100 euros for sexual exhibition, with exclusion of the entry in his criminal record, during a guilty plea hearing on Monday at the Paris court, AFP learned from judicial sources.

The right winger was initially accused of attempted rape at the end of January in Paris but the investigation only established a sexual exhibition, which he admitted, which led him to be summoned to appear in court. prior recognition of guilt (CRPC), a sort of French-style guilty plea. The player was placed in police custody for a few hours on January 31, three days after being crowned European champion with the French handball team against Denmark (33-31 AD) in Cologne.

Towards a complaint for slanderous denunciation

A 20-year-old woman accused him of trying to rape her “during an alcoholic evening in a nightclub in the 8th arrondissement” of Paris on the evening of January 30, the Paris prosecutor’s office reported at the time. . The 27-year-old player, who plays for the Polish club Kielce, disputed the facts. “He reserves the right to file a complaint for slanderous denunciation,” his lawyer, Me Mario Stasi, told AFP.

He is included in the enlarged group selected on Monday, before his conviction, by the coach of the French team Guillaume Gille to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games (July 27 – August 11 for men’s handball). The French Handball Federation announced in mid-April that it would “quickly initiate disciplinary proceedings as well as a request for a position from the ethics commission” against Kounkoud.