The Mendoza public prosecutor’s office, where the investigation against Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, the two French rugby players accused of aggravated rape in Argentina, is being conducted, requested this Friday, October 4, for a dismissal of the case which will be studied during a hearing set for October 18. october.
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A few days after receiving the complainant’s psychological and psychiatric expert report, the Mendoza public prosecutor’s office decided to support the request for dismissal made by the lawyers of the two players from the XV of France. This report had weakened the complainant’s version, noting “ a series of inconsistencies and contradictions which overall outline an unlikely story “.
Her psychological expertise in no way excludes that she “ may experience emotional discomfort, experiencing what happened as traumatic », Note the two experts. Nevertheless, “ in the strict sense “, She ” does not present clinical symptoms of post-traumatic stress caused by what she denounces “.
On Thursday, the latter was heard by a provincial legislative commission, before which she explained that she felt that her rights were being violated by the justice system of her country, reports our correspondent in Buenos Aires, Théo Conscience. The president of this commission then spoke to the press of suspicions of “ political pressure » to close the case by recalling that the rugby players’ lawyer is the brother of Javier Milei’s Minister of Justice.
The request for dismissal will be examined during a closed hearing set for October 18 by the judge in charge of the case, said the spokesperson for the Argentine prosecutor’s office, and the decision should be reserved. One of the Argentinian lawyers for the two young French rugby players, Me Rafael Cuneo Libarona, declared: satisfied » to AFP of the position of the prosecution. He believes that this affair must “ alert on cases of abusive denunciations against innocent people “.
Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, both aged 21, are still charged in Argentina with aggravated rape, committed in a meeting for alleged acts that occurred on the night of July 6 to 7 in a hotel room in Mendoza, where they had just won a match against Argentina for their first selection with the XV of France. The players have maintained from the beginning that the sexual relations with the complainant, whom they met in a nightclub, were consensual. And they deny any violence, while the plaintiff’s lawyer mentioned ” terrible violence ”, who saw his client “ brutally beaten “.
Arrested on July 8 and placed in detention then under house arrest, the two players were conditionally released in mid-August before being authorized to return to France on September 3. They have both returned to training with their respective teams, and the second should even return to the Top 14 fields with Pau against Perpignan this Saturday.