The distress of a family in search of answers and explanations. At the end of August, the parents of the young international rugby player Medhi Narjissi, who disappeared off the coast of South Africa, spoke to the press with great emotion, saying they were “destroyed” and “devastated”.
They are still waiting for the investigation to shed light on this tragedy that took place on August 7 during a trip by the French U18 team organized by the French Rugby Federation. Aged 17, Medhi Narjissi, a promising player from Stade Toulousain trained in Agen, was swept away by strong currents while he was taking part in a recovery session on Dias Beach, near the Cape of Good Hope. A teammate tried in vain to rescue him.
“It’s unthinkable”
Moved and overcome by a terribly touching anger, Medhi’s father, Jalil Narjissi, agreed to speak to RMC: “You don’t need to be a graduate to see the danger of this place. There were twelve of them on staff who supported this, who didn’t intervene… We say to ourselves: ‘What was going through the minds of these adults to put our children there?’ They would have moved if it had been their children…”
“It’s unthinkable, I don’t understand. All these adults… It was our son who disappeared, but there were 28 of them. There are others who almost lost their lives. Let them take responsibility for this catastrophe,” he asks.
The public prosecutor of Agen announced on Tuesday the opening of a judicial investigation into a worrying disappearance, entrusted to the interdepartmental management of the national police in Agen.
- RMC Sport
