IThey will be able to leave Argentina. The two French rugby players Oscar Jégou and Hugo Auradou, charged with aggravated rape for almost two months in Argentina, were authorized on Tuesday, September 3 by the courts to leave the South American country “from now on”, announced the provincial justice of Mendoza.
At a hearing in Mendoza, the prosecution did not object to the prosecutor’s recommendation Monday to allow Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jégou to leave Argentina, the court said in a statement. “This resolution therefore remains valid and they will be able to leave the country from now on,” the statement added.
“They can leave,” Martin Ahumada, spokesman for the provincial justice system, confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP), while it remained to be determined at Tuesday’s hearing whether an extension of the psychological assessments already carried out was required, an extension requested by the plaintiff’s lawyers. Extension or not, “they can leave now,” he assured AFP. And to emphasize: “They can leave, and subsequently see the required terms of the assessment, and appear if they are summoned.”
A return to France subject to rules
Martin Ahumada nevertheless assured that the green light for this return to France was accompanied by “rules”, in particular to “present themselves if summoned to the Argentine consulate in France”, to present themselves in virtual mode “as often as required”, or even r […] Read more
