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Still indicted for alleged acts of rape committed in July in Argentina, after a Blues match, Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou nevertheless have the possibility of exercising their profession as rugby players. The second has already returned to competition.
He resumed the competition with almost general indifference, almost as if nothing had happened.
Hugo Auradou started in the Pau team on Saturday October 5 to challenge Perpignan at Aimé-Giral during the 5th day of Top 14. No hostile reaction from the Catalan public was noted by the media, although they were present en masse for this return.
It was his first steps in competition since the outbreak of the highly publicized case of suspected rape, in which he is the protagonist, alongside Oscar Jegou, player from La Rochelle. Both are accused by a 39-year-old Argentinian woman. The alleged events occurred at the beginning of July in Mendoza, after a meeting of the XV of France.
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Nothing prevents the two 21-year-old players from exercising their profession as rugby players. The only potential barriers are psychological or moral. Precisely, one of them was set on Saturday October 5 by Jean-Marc Lhermet, vice-president of the French Rugby Federation, concerning a possible return of Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou to the French team.
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“They have been drawn into a spiral in which the legal consequences will arrive quickly, to find out whether there will be a dismissal of the case or not” he declared on Sud Radio. “Today we are impatiently waiting for it, but it still hasn’t arrived, so it’s difficult to know what will happen. As long as there is no official dismissal, They will not play in the French team. Each club manages its team and its players as it wishes. The position that I express is that of the French team, of the French Rugby Federation. whatever he wants, La Rochelle also does what he wants,” said Jean-Marc Lhermet.
? Hugo Auradou returns to the Top 14 field with Pau
? @JM_Lhermet (Vice President of the FFR): “As long as there is no official dismissal, they will not play again with the French team! » pic.twitter.com/spSPrQb6pG
— Sud Radio Rugby (@SudRadioRugby)
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The request for dismissal was filed at the end of August by the players’ lawyers. A first decisive hearing will be held on October 18. The plaintiff’s lawyer has already announced that she will appeal if the case is dismissed.
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