Before their match against the Sharks in the Champions Cup on Saturday, the players and staff of Stade Toulouse paid tribute on Friday to the young Medhi Narjissi, who died on August 7 in South Africa.
France Télévisions – Sports Editorial
Published on 10/01/2025 14:38
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Traveling to South Africa as part of the Champions Cup, the Stade Toulousain players, in the words of Antoine Dupont, Friday January 10, at a press conference, honored their “duty to remember” towards the young Medhi Narjissi, who disappeared at sea near Cape Town on August 7. “It was a duty of remembrance of the club, to show the solidarity we had, (…) that we were thinking of him, it was a gesture that happened quite naturally,” affirmed the scrum half of the Toulouse team and the XV of France, about this hope who played under the colors of the Rouge et Noir in the youth categories.
Last August, 17-year-old Medhi Narjissi was washed off a supposedly dangerous beach near the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, while he was with the French U18 team for an international tournament. .
Tuesday, the delegation from Stade Toulousain, which traveled to South Africa to face the Sharks (Saturday 4:15 p.m.), went near the scene of the accident for an extremely discreet tribute, at the end of which no image was shown. filtered. “It seemed necessary and useful to us, at our level, to be able to show a form of unwavering support”to the family of the deceased, said Toulouse coach Ugo Mola. “It was strong, even very strong. Having gone through personal tragedies, I don’t think I’ve experienced anything like that in rugby since I’ve been playing it”he continued, moved.
An investigation is still underway into the disappearance of the son of former professional player Jilal Narjissi. It was reclassified in October as manslaughter by the Agen public prosecutor’s office.
