The alleged facts date from almost six years. On December 15, 2019, while he was playing at AS Nancy, Baptiste Valette spent an evening a little too watered in a nightclub.
That evening, this goalkeeper has sex with an 18-year-old young woman, at the exit of the establishment located in the city center. “Consented” According to him. Except that the latter would have expressed his refusal to him several times. It undergoes several vaginal and anal penetrations. A few hours later, the footballer was placed in police custody, then indicted for rape by the public prosecutor.
This will not, however, prevent him from continuing his career in the colors of the Lorrain club, with which he played 69 Ligue 2 matches between 2019 and 2022. Baptiste Valette will then spend three seasons at the lower level, in National, Cholet (2022-2023) and Sochaux (2023-2025).
Baptiste Valette, tried six years after the alleged facts
In 2023, the Court of Appeal of the Prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle referred the case to the Departmental Criminal Court. According to
The East Republicanshe will judge the porter aged now 33 years to “Rape by person in a manifest state of drunkenness”from December 1.
Last summer, Baptiste Valette signed with RC Grasse (National 2). “Justice does what it has to do. The collaboration with the player is not called into question to date. He is presumed innocent until justice is done ”, reacted Coralie Simon, the director general of the Alpes-Maritimes club, who lost on Saturday on the lawn of the Goal FC (3-2).
