The manager of the French under-18 team, implicated by the French Rugby Federation in an internal investigation into the disappearance at sea of Medhi Narjissi, has filed a complaint for slanderous denunciation, announced his lawyer. In an interview published Tuesday by the daily South WestMe Arnaud Dupin believes that the FFR tried to “to pillory” his client to make him responsible for the disappearance of the young international. The Bordeaux lawyer’s office confirmed to AFP the filing of a complaint with the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The French U18 team was in South Africa as part of an international tournament when, on August 7, Medhi Narjissi was swept out to sea on a beach known to be dangerous near the Cape of Good Hope. The players had a recovery session there organized by their management. The complaint from the U18 manager follows the submission in mid-September of a report from the FFR questioning the sports technical advisors present at the gathering in South Africa.
The executives in question have “been suspended as a precautionary measure“, according to the Ministry of Sports, while awaiting the results”before the end of November“of the administrative investigation carried out by the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research. According to Stéphane Cambos’ lawyer, the FFR”completely obscured“the statements of his client in this report”destitute and scandalous“. “The session should have been done at the end of the excursion to the hotel. (…) It was when he saw that the swim had been organized without his knowledge that he went down to the beach. It was at this moment that the physical trainer and those who were around stopped this sessionargues Me Dupin. If the swimming stops when Stéphane Cambos intervenes, it is because he did not agree“.
The lawyer points out several alleged failings by the FFR, such as the absence of a mission letter signed by the manager.who frames his functions“, or the lack of hierarchical link between Stéphane Cambos and the physical trainer, who “are both national technical framework“The Agen public prosecutor’s office, seized by the player’s family, opened at the end of August”a worrying disappearance of a judicial investigation“. “If the preparer has decided, and it is the criminal investigation which will have to determine this, to take latitudes with the established program, it is his responsibility“, assure Me Dupin.
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