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Jail sought for drugging children's tennis rivals

MONT-DE-MARSAN (France): A prosecutor on Thursday requested eight to 10 years imprisonment for an obsessive father who confessed to drugging his children's tennis rivals, allegedly leading to a player's death. Judges were expected to reach a verdict later in the evening in the trial of former military pilot Christophe Fauviau in Mont-de-Marsan, southwestern France. Prosecutor Serge Mackowiack described Fauviau as ``an adult who turned his children into objects of his own fantasies of success'' and whose actions were premeditated. ``Nothing stopped you: Players collapsing on the court, the sight of gurneys, of an 11-year-old girl, a young woman who collapses against a fence. Nothing stopped you,'' said the prosecutor, Serge Mackowiack. In tearful earlier testimony, Fauviau asked the parents of the victim, 25-year-old school teacher Alexandre Lagardere, for forgiveness. ``It's something that completely took me over, and I couldn't imagine that I could be responsible for the death of your son,'' he told the court last week. He is accused of drugging his children's opponents 27 times in tournaments across France from 2000 to 2003. — AP

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