While a dismissal hearing is scheduled for October 18, new evidence has been added to the file in the Auradou-Jegou case. The alleged victim’s lawyers are calling for a continuation of the judicial investigation.
In the Auradou-Jegou affair, a dismissal hearing will take place on October 18 in Mendoza (Argentina), This dismissal was requested “due to doubts or lack of evidence” against Auradou and Jegou. “The defense requested the dismissal of the case before the prosecution, and the prosecution supports this dismissal of the case and requests a hearing with the judge”, Mendoza court spokesperson Martin Ahumada revealed to AFP.
But the Auradou-Jegou affair faces a new major twist. According to information from Le Parisien, a medical certificate was issued on October 3 by a hematologist. This document specifies that the alleged victim accusing the two French rugby players of aggravated rape in a meeting “nHe does not suffer from Willebrand disease.. As a reminder, this is a syndrome that hinders blood clotting. This is an important new element which has therefore been added to the file.
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“A highly valuable piece of evidence” according to the alleged victim’s lawyers
While this fourteen-page document was presented to the Mendoza Public Prosecutor’s Office, these elements constitute new proof according to the alleged victim’s lawyers. They talk about this new piece of “evidence of great value and demand a prosecution of the judicial investigation“. “The hearing (to drop the charges) will take place”, said, for his part, Darío Nora, the magistrate in charge of the investigation.
For the prosecution’s lawyers, “the prosecutor and his superiors justify the fifteen lesions observed on the body of their client on the day of her filing of the complaint by this illness”. The parquet “suffered from a kind of procedural fraud on the part of the defense, which, (…) through an innumerable amount of public statements, maintained that the plaintiff was currently suffering from an illness, without a medical examination to demonstrate it”. Thus, the two representatives of the alleged victim, Natacha Romano and Mauricio Cardello, expressed theirr “formal opposition to the dismissal required by the public prosecutor, qualified on several occasions “hasty and premature”.
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“They must be punished”
Didier Codorniou, candidate for the presidency of the French rugby federation against the outgoing Florian Grill, spoke about the affair this Wednesday October 9 to AFP. He would like the federation “sanctions the two players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jégou, indicted for rape in Argentina.” “There were two players who wore the French team jersey and who came home drunk at five in the morning. They must be punished, even if the punishment must be gradual and this, whatever the legal outcome of the case.”, he assured.
He points to Hugo Auradou’s return to the field with his Pau club on October 5. According to him, this shows that “the Federation is not up to the task”. For his part, Oscar Jégou trained with his La Rochelle club, but a possible return has not been decided. “I explained myself with the two presidents of Pau and La Rochelle to tell them that I totally disagree with an immediate resumption, and I would have liked the Federation can properly sanction“concluded Didier Codorniou.
