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Former goalkeeper for the Girondins de Bordeaux and Belgium, the man who was nicknamed “le Gil” could have died drowned…
Emblematic goalkeeper of Standard de Liège (from 1981 to 1996 then during the 1997-1998 season), Gilbert Bodart is known in France for having played for the Girondins de Bordeaux during the 1996-1997 financial year. The former goalkeeper, now aged 61, also has twelve caps with the Red Devils.
Monday evening, the Belgian wanted to end his life by jumping into the Meuse. According to the local press, he threw himself from the Pont de l’Europe, located in the town of Huy, in the Walloon region. “I am at the end, my last hours. I can’t take this shitty life anymore. I was robbed of 115,000 euros, I’m breaking down. Thank you to justice for having my death on your conscience”, he warned on Facebook earlier in the day.
Delicate post-football
“Here is my last photo as a souvenir for you”, Bodart also wrote to accompany a selfie. The former footballer still managed to get out of the water safely, thanks to the rope that the firefighters threw him. He was then taken to hospital.
Post-football was complicated to manage for the former Bordeaux player. In 2008, he was placed under arrest warrant and imprisoned in connection with counterfeit currency trafficking. He was also arrested following his complicity in a robbery that occurred during the same year. Four years later, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for complicity in the latter affair.
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