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Still indicted for aggravated rape in Argentina, Hugo Auradou will return to the field this Saturday, October 5. The second row of Pau will even start for the match against Perpignan (4:30 p.m.), during the 5th day of the Top 14.
A Top 14 meeting, banal on paper, but which will be nothing ordinary. This Saturday, October 5, the Aimé-Giral stadium in Perpignan will be the scene of the return to the pitch of Hugo Auradou, one of the two rugby players at the heart of an alleged rape case.
The second line from Pau, as well as that from La Rochelle, Oscar Jegou (both aged 21), are accused of violent rape by a 39-year-old Argentinian woman. Alleged facts which occurred at the beginning of July in Mendoza, after a meeting of the XV of France. The Argentine prosecutor’s office requested a dismissal of the case.
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This Saturday, Hugo Auradou will be the first to return to competition, a little less than three months after the affair broke out. He will even be a starter, as his manager Sébastien Piqueronies announced on Friday October 4. “Nothing prohibits him from playing rugby, he is presumed innocent. Today, it is up to those who defend him and the club management to assume consistency as they have done from the start.”
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A return which, however, provokes the anger of the plaintiff’s defenders. “The club (Pau, Editor’s note) has no ethics from the moment it does not dismiss, at least until a legal decision on the matter, a player who remains to this day under investigation for offenses extremely serious”, launches lawyer Natacha Romano to the Parisian-Today in France. “What example do we give to young athletes around the world?” she continues. “It’s denigrating to women. The fact that the club allows an accused person to play means that it supports her. It’s a dark message, a legitimization of violence.”
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The kickoff of the Top 14 Perpignan-Pau match (5th day) is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at the Aimé-Giral stadium.
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