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Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou believed they saw the end of the legal tunnel with the decision on Tuesday of the Argentine courts to abandon the prosecution for aggravated rape of which they are accused by a complainant met in a nightclub, but her lawyer announced her intention to do so. call.
The courts chose to close the case, but the case has not stopped talking. Tuesday, December 10, the Argentine courts officially dismissed the case in favor of Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou, the two players of the XV of France were accused of rape by a 39-year-old Argentinian woman. But for the player’s lawyer who appealed this decision during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the story is not over.
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Maître Natacha Romano notably attacked, last night, on the Argentinian TV channel El Siete TV, the public prosecutor and the magistrate who was in charge of the case. “He told us that it was his first sexual assault case. Why we entrusted him with this case, why he accepted it, it’s strange. We should have dealt with a specialist, not him who has no experience.” Before concluding: “The public prosecutor did not want to investigate.”
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For his part, the lawyer for the two players, Maître Antoine Vey, interviewed this Wednesday morning by BFM TV, was optimistic. Invoking the various elements which led the Argentine justice to declare the dismissal of the case. “A priori justice is not going to put an end to the prosecution if there are no elements which justify it. These elements are the entire investigation which led to the seizure of material which was exploited. surveillance videos, audios, dozens of testimonies, none of which support the complainant’s version. Forensic expertise which concludes that there was no violence and a psychiatric and psychological expertise from the complainant which says that. ‘She to ‘an unhealthy tendency towards victimization'”.
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Maître Natacha Romano, who has always maintained that her client had been the victim of “terrible violence” and pleaded for a “total rejection” of the dismissal of the case, soberly indicated, by message without further comments, that she was going to “ call “.
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