Stéphane Cambos, the former manager of the French rugby team under 18, was placed in police custody, Tuesday April 15, in the survey of the disappearance at the Sea of Medhi Narjissi, 17, during a trip to the selection in South Africa, in the summer of 2024.
Mr. Cambos is heard in Agen by police from the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS), a police source said at the France-Presse (AFP) agency. These act under commission rogatory within the framework of the judicial information requalified in manslaughter in mid-October, the prosecution said to AFP, confirming daily newspapers South West.
The selection stayed in South Africa for an international tournament when the young player of the Toulouse stadium was swept away by the waves on a beach deemed dangerous, near the Cape of Bonne-Espérance, on August 7, 2024. The group was doing a recovery session.
-“Suspended on a precaution”
In mid-September, the French Rugby Federation (FFR) implicated 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 Diaz Beach beach was taken without considering the dangerousness of the site”she said in particular. After this drama, the team’s sports technical advisers “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 federation for slanderous denunciation. His lawyer, Me Arnaud Dupin, believes that the body tried to “Pillory nail” His client to make him bear responsibility for the disappearance of the young international.
