Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou are finally decided on their fate.
The decision was expected this early afternoon. Five months after the alleged facts, Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou are finally fixed this Tuesday, December 10.
Argentine justice has dropped the rape charges against the two rugby players, their lawyer announced.
The prosecution had argued in favor of dismissal of the case, that is to say an abandonment of the proceedings, as it had announced at the beginning of October at the end of the investigation. The players' lawyers also argued in favor of the dismissal of the case, which they have been demanding since the end of August. As for the plaintiff's lawyer, a 39-year-old Argentinian, she requested “the total rejection” of the dismissal and demanded that the investigation continue, from her point of view, with a new prosecutor.
Suspected of aggravated rape
For five months, Auradou and Jegou, 21, have been charged with aggravated rape because they were committed in a meeting: alleged events that occurred on the night of July 6 to 7 in a hotel in Mendoza, where the French XV had just played a test. match against Argentina, followed by a “third half”.
Both have affirmed from the beginning that the sexual relations with the complainant, met in a nightclub, were consensual and without violence. The plaintiff's lawyer, on the other hand, denounced a rape with “terrible violence”, in a case which saw two radically opposed versions of the facts oppose each other, apart from a convergence on the reality of the sexual acts in the bedroom, and a context alcoholic.
Auradou and Jegou returned to France at the beginning of September after the green light from the Argentine courts – the prosecution then considered that the accusation had “lost its force”. They have since resumed their careers as professional rugby players in the Top 14: from October for Auradou with Pau, in November for Jegou with La Rochelle.
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