The father of a 16-year-old French player is in jail, accused of spiking the water bottles of his son's opponents with an anti-anxiety drug during a local tournament in late June in France.
Christophe Fauviau was caught spiking a bottle with Temesta, whose side effects include drowsiness, before a semifinal match on June 28. Next day in the final, the player the son defeated ended up in the hospital for two days because of blurred vision and nausea.
Then, days later, yet another of the players the son defeated was killed in a car crash hours after the match, apparently after falling asleep at the wheel.
Fauviau, 43, is awaiting trial in a jail in Mont-de-Marsan while the police determine if there are other victims. The son, Maxime, has gone into seclusion with his mother and sister, none of whom is suspected of wrongdoing.
Christophe Fauviau was caught spiking a bottle with Temesta, whose side effects include drowsiness, before a semifinal match on June 28. Next day in the final, the player the son defeated ended up in the hospital for two days because of blurred vision and nausea.
Then, days later, yet another of the players the son defeated was killed in a car crash hours after the match, apparently after falling asleep at the wheel.
Fauviau, 43, is awaiting trial in a jail in Mont-de-Marsan while the police determine if there are other victims. The son, Maxime, has gone into seclusion with his mother and sister, none of whom is suspected of wrongdoing.
