FIFA has announced its extension by ninety days, the provisional ban
on the president of Haiti’s football federation pending an
investigation into allegations that he sexually abused teenage girls
at the national training centre.
Yves Jean-Bart, seventy-three, categorically denied accusations that
he raped several young female footballers at a training facility
outside Port-au-Prince over the course of the past five years.
FIFA slapped an initial ban on Jean-Bart on May twenty-fifth, but that
period has now been extended for a similar period.
According to FIFA, during this time, Mr. Jean-Bart will continue to be
banned from taking part in any football-related activity at both
national and international level.
World football’s governing body added that investigations had been
widened to include other federation officials, who were identified as
having allegedly been involved, as principals, accomplices or
instigators in acts of systematic sexual abuse against female football
players.
FIFA said its investigatory chamber “has expanded the scope of the
aforementioned investigations by opening formal proceedings against
Nela Joseph, girls’ supervisor at the Centre Technique National in
Croix-des-Bouquets and Wilner Etienne, Technical Director of the FHF.
Both Joseph and Etienne were also provisionally banned Thursday from
taking part in any football activity at both national and
international level for a period of ninety days.
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