Evans Lescouflair
Evans Lescouflair is a Haitian politician. He formerly served as Minister of Youth, Sports and Civic Action and as leader of the Cooperative Action to Build Haiti political party.[1][2][3]
He has faced several allegations of having committed sexual assault.[4] In 2015, Himmler Rebu, who was then serving as Haitian Minister of Sports, accused Lescouflair of having abused youth sports players. In March 2022, additional allegations of sexual abuse surfaced against him, including from youth former members of the Club Sportif Saint-Louis and from Claude-Alix Bertrand, the Haitian ambassador to UNESCO.[5] On 2 July that year, he was arrested in Panama.[6]
References
- ^ "Face à l'Opinion: Evans "Dady" Lescouflair sou espò an Ayiti (1) / Radio Haiti Archive / Duke Digital Repository".
- ^ https://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201010140804.html [bare URL]
- ^ "Les jeunes Haïtiens rappellent les valeurs du football à Dirinon". 27 May 2018.
- ^ "Haïti/Affaire Lescouflair : Dossier classé sans suite". 8 October 2010.
- ^ "Former Haitian sports minister Evans Lescouflair accused of raping children". TheGuardian.com. 26 March 2022.
- ^ "Former Haitian Sports Minister Arrested for Alleged Sexual Abuse". 8 August 2022.