Five ex-Rugby players from Grenoble will appear from this Monday, December 2 before the Gironde Assize Court. They are accused of having raped a young woman or of having witnessed the attack without intervening, after an alcoholic “third half” in Bordeaux in 2017.
The trial, scheduled until December 13, was initially scheduled to be held in June, behind closed doors, but was postponed in the absence of a defendant, Irishman Denis Coulson, injured in a serious car accident a few days later. early. The former pillar, aged 30, is being prosecuted for gang rape with New Zealander Rory Grice, 34, and Frenchman Loïck Jammes, 30. The Irishman Chris Farrell (31 years old) and the New Zealander Dylan Hayes (40 years old) answer for failure to prevent a crime.
On March 12, 2017, V. (20 years old) left in tears a hotel in Mérignac, on the outskirts of Bordeaux, where the Grenoble team had spent the night after a Top 14 match lost against UBB, the local club. The student filed a complaint, declaring that she had met FCG players in a bar and followed them to a nightclub, where everyone had drunk a lot. She didn't remember anything between the disco and the hotel where she had come to her senses, naked on a bed with a crutch in her vagina, surrounded by two naked men and others dressed.
« Alcohol does not allow to do anything and everything with your body »
Coulson, Jammes and Grice admitted to sexual relations by claiming that V. was consenting. Farrell, who owned the crutches, was in the room and Hayes also witnessed the incident.
“When we go to a nightclub and drink a lot, it’s not to make small talk. We want to have relationships with boys. She was very active, she kissed him in a nightclub, gave him oral sex in the taxi, she sent him signs saying: I'm up for it »considers Coulson’s lawyer, Me Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt.
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According to a toxicological expert, the victim had between 2.2 and 3 grams of alcohol per liter of blood. On video surveillance images, she can barely stand up when she arrives at the hotel. “No one has to be perfect from dawn to bed. It's not because (alcoholization) It is his fact that this authorizes (the others) to do anything and everything with your body”argues his lawyer, Me Anne Cadiot-Feidt, for whom the accused should have ” protect “ rather than ” enjoy “ or from “let enjoy” why “weak situation”.
