Ouest-France report this morning that Angers left-back Ilyes Chetti has been handed a four-month suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of sexual assault, having appeared in court today.
Through a procedure by which he would have plead guilty in advance of his appearance in court, Chetti admitted inappropriately touching a woman he did not know, in an incident which took place in a nightclub in the city during the World Cup break back in December of last year.
When reports of the legal proceedings first surfaced last month, then-Angers manager Abdel Bouhazama stunned his players with a team talk that appeared to downplay the events – “It’s nothing nasty. We all touched girls before”. He later resigned from Ligue 1’s bottom-placed outfit, who are winless since September and sit on just 10 points.
Former club president Saïd Chabane, who remains the team’s owner, has legal issues of his own to contend with, having been in police custody from Tuesday to last night over suspicions of money laundering.
GFFN | Raphaël Jucobin
