This is a case that will make a big splash in the small world of biathlon if the facts are proven! The newspaper The team reveals in fact, in its Wednesday edition, a case of bank card fraud whose culprits would be the winner of the World Cup Julia Simon and the victim her teammate in the French team Justine Braisaz-Bouchet.

According to the sports newspaper, Simon (26 years old) would have used a bank card belonging to Braisaz-Bouchet (who will celebrate his 27th birthday on Tuesday) to make purchases on the internet – estimated between 1,000 and 2,000 euros – using his own computer and his own computer. email address, during a roller ski competition in Norway last August. A few days passed before Braiez-Bouchet publicly announced that she would not play the 2022-23 season because she was pregnant. Her daughter Côme was born last February. A member of the Bleues staff also filed a complaint against Julia Simon, for an embezzled sum of a few dozen euros.

Simon disputes the facts

Still according to the sports newspaper, Braisaz-Bouchet wanted to resolve the problem internally with Simon and the French Ski Federation, but ultimately filed a complaint during the winter because things were not progressing. According to the lawyer of the world-winning biathlete, “Julia Simon’s position is clear: she disputes the facts (…) The defense version led to the suspension of proceedings by the association. »

An investigation is still underway, but in the meantime, Julia Simon has not returned to training with the France team, officially for personal reasons. She nevertheless still has the right to join the Blues if she wishes. As for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, five months after the birth of her daughter, she is trying to find her best level to participate in the next season. But there is no doubt that with this credit card affair, whether the facts are proven or not, the atmosphere within the women’s biathlon team will not be good…