two of the rugby players convicted of gang rape in Bordeaux request their release

French rugby players Loïck Jammes and New Zealander Rory Grice do not agree with the Bordeaux criminal court and have decided to appeal. Sentenced last December for gang rape, after a match with Grenoble in 2017 in the Top 14, the two rugby players requested their release. They appealed their conviction, they who contest the facts with which they are accused, as indicated by Le Figaro.

Jammes and Grice request their release

While the two rugby players were found guilty of having raped a young woman after a very alcoholic evening, which followed a Top 14 match of their team at the time, Grenoble, on the lawn of Bordeaux-Bègles there is for more than seven years, they have disputed the facts. They were found guilty after a two-week closed-door trial and received sentences of 14 and 12 years in prison. But they decided to appeal and their lawyers requested, on Tuesday, their release pending this new trial, they who contest the gang rape. Loïck Jammes' lawyer, Me Denis Dreyfus, declared to AFP following the request for release, that “for seven years, they were placed under judicial supervision and it never posed any difficulty“. The lawyer for the former Grenoble player insists on the “presumption of innocence“. But not sure that justice will accept this release. Me Denis Dreyfus and Me Philip Fitzgerald, lawyer for Rory Grice, proposed to the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Bordeaux a house arrest with bracelet electronics of their customers “if she considered that judicial control is not sufficient“. The decision is due on February 11.