The investigation into violent rape concerning Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou could be relaunched. While a dismissal of the case must be pronounced on October 18 in Argentina, the plaintiff’s lawyers have provided last minute proof, announces The Parisian .
This new evidence is a medical certificate stating that the plaintiff does not suffer from Willebrand disease, which prevents the proper circulation of blood.
New expertise requested
During the trial, the defense used this argument to explain the complainant’s bruising, this disease sometimes causing blue marks on the body. For the plaintiff’s camp, the defense “argued that the complainant was suffering from an illness, without a medical examination to demonstrate it”.
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However, the complainant herself admitted to suffering from this illness with the support of a hematologist. A new expertise is requested while the dismissal hearing, scheduled for October 18, was to seal this case.
Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, both aged 21, are still charged in Argentina with aggravated rape committed in a meeting for alleged acts that occurred on the night of July 6 to 7 in a hotel room in Mendoza, where they were coming to win a match against Argentina for their first selection with the XV of France.
Players deny any violence
The players have maintained from the beginning that the sexual relations with the complainant, whom they met in a nightclub, were consensual. And they deny any violence, while the plaintiff’s lawyer mentioned “terrible violence”, who saw his client “savagely beaten”.
First detained then placed under house arrest, they were released in mid-August, then authorized to leave Argentina pending the end of the investigation, the prosecution believing “that the initial accusation has lost its force”. They returned to France on September 4.
Hugo Auradou, son of former international David Auradou, returned to the Pau training center five days later and resumed collective training in mid-September. Oscar Jegou has resumed training with La Rochelle, where he plays in the third line position.
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