The ex-manager of the French rugby team under 18, supervising the young Medhi Narjissi who disappeared at sea in South Africa last summer, was placed on Tuesday April 15 in police custody in the survey for manslaughter, we learned from a police source.
Stéphane Cambos is heard in Agen by police from the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS), this source told AFP.
They act under a rogatory commission within the framework of the judicial information opened for manslaughter by an agen investigating judge after the disappearance of Medhi Narjissi17, during an internship in the French selection U18 in South Africa, the local prosecutor’s office said to AFP, confirming information from the South West daily.
The team was staying in this country during an international tournament when, on August 7, the young player of the Toulouse stadium was swept away by the waves on a beach reputed to be dangerous near the Cape of good Hope. The players were doing a recovery session organized by their supervision.
Cambos filed a complaint against the FFR
The Agen prosecution had been seized at the end of August by the player’s family. In mid-September, the French Rugby Federation (FFR) questioned, in an internal investigation report, the supervision of the U18s present at the rally.
“The decision to organize a recovery session in the water on the beach of Dias Beach was taken without considering the dangerousness of the site”she said in particular. After this drama, the Technical Sports Advisers of the U18 team have “been suspended as a precaution” by the Ministry of Sports at the request of the FFR.
Stéphane Cambos, for his part, filed a complaint aimed at the FFR for slanderous denunciation. His lawyer, Me Arnaud Dupin, believes that the federation tried to “Pillory nail” The supervisor to make him bear responsibility for the disappearance of the young international.
