Should Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jégou be selected from the Six Nations Tournament?

For many months, they hit the legal headlines. A sordid affair which has not done any good for the image of rugby. On the night of July 6 to 7, 2024, on the evening of their first selection with the XV of France, against Argentina in Mendoza, Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jégou went out. To celebrate their victorious debut. A bar, then a nightclub, before returning late (or early depending) to their hotel, around 5:30 a.m., quite tipsy and in the company of a late-night encounter. A 39-year-old woman who then accused the two young men (21 years old each) of having had non-consensual sexual relations with her.

Charged with gang rape, the second line of the Paloise Section and the third line of Stade Rochelais spent a few days in prison, before being placed under house arrest. Finally authorized to return to France in mid-August, they followed the rest of the procedure there. The contradictions…