According to an online report, the man is under investigation by the Vienna public prosecutor. Investigated because of the “suspicion of sexual coercion and the suspicion of abuse of a relationship of authority”. They take the matter “very seriously,” said a statement on the club’s website.
According to the “Krone Report”, the stone started rolling through two current advertisements from the Vienna women’s team. The newspaper has an internal letter from the club announcing that “the contact details of all players who were in teams of the coach now under suspicion have been forwarded to the authorities”. The incidents would have been “several years” ago.
Vienna emphasized that it was in contact with the State Criminal Police Office and the public prosecutor’s office “to help with the processing of the facts. After it became known, we immediately put together a team to examine the allegations,” the statement said. “Complete and transparent clarification” is just as much a focus as “the introduction of additional measures to better prevent abuse of power and personal attacks of any kind in the future”.
Source: Nachrichten
