The case concerning the alleged rape of French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou is experiencing a new twist as the examination of the request for dismissal of the two rugby players approaches. The complainant, a 39-year-old woman, expressed her sense of rights on Thursday before the Commission of Rights and Guarantees of Mendoza “scorned” by justice, as reported by Ouest France.“We presented the request on what we believe to have been, and still to be, a constant and permanent violation of our rights and guarantees in the judicial field,” Felix, father of the 39-year-old complainant, told the press in Mendoza, who did not give his name to preserve his daughter’s anonymity. “We will resort to all necessary authorities” for the protection of these rights, including “of course” international bodies, he added without further details, following his daughter’s remote hearing. There “Rights and Guarantees Commission” of Mendoza is made up of half a dozen deputies of the Provincial Assembly, from various sides.
Political pressure according to the president of the commission
However “there was no agreement” in committee, regretted to the media its president Jose Luis Ramon, adding that he will therefore formulate, in his personal capacity as president, a request for access to the investigation file for information purposes. “There is a very strong political aspect” in this matter, lamented the deputy, regretting “the attempt to transform the victim into a litigant”, and making the provincial government of Mendoza responsible. “There’s something that smells bad.”he insisted, evoking a “political pressure” to close the case, a “extreme speed” decisions of the prosecution, and mentioning that the rugby players’ lawyer is the brother of the Minister of Justice of the Milei government. The complainant felt on several occasions that she had been given little consideration by the courts, and her lawyers had requested at the beginning of September the recusal of the two prosecutors in charge of the investigation, which was not done. As a reminder, Argentine justice must in the coming days set a hearing date for the examination of the request for dismissal, filed at the end of August by the players’ lawyers. Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, two 21-year-old French rugby players, are charged with aggravated rape in a meeting, allegedly occurring on the night of July 6 to 7 in a hotel room in Mendoza, where the French XV had just played a match against Argentina. The players have maintained from the beginning that the sexual relations with the complainant, whom they met in a nightclub, were consensual. They joined France on September 4, and have since resumed training in their clubs.
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The case concerning the alleged rape of French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou has experienced a new twist. The complainant, a 39-year-old woman, expressed Thursday before the Commission of Rights and Guarantees of Mendoza her feeling of rights “violated” by the justice system.
