The Mendoza public prosecutor’s office filed this Friday a request for dismissal of charges in favor of Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, indicted for violent gang rape.
The date of the hearing, which will take place behind closed doors, has not yet been set (this should be the case by Monday) but it could take place within ten days. Judge Eleonora Arenas will be responsible for reviewing this request.
“The defense requested the dismissal of the case before the prosecution, and the prosecution supports the dismissal of the case and requests a hearing with the judge,” Martin Ahumada, spokesperson for the prosecution of Mendoza (west) then told AFP. .
The local public prosecutor’s office requests that the Argentine courts hold a hearing to examine this request for dismissal. This is what the lawyers of French rugby players have been demanding since the end of August.
This request will be evaluated by a judge during a hearing, the date of which remains to be determined.
The two prosecutors in charge of the case request that “due to the complexity of the case, the hearing be given an exceptional duration of at least three hours, as well as the provision of the means of view the videos and audio recordings that this party presents in support of the request”, according to the dismissal request form that franceinfo was able to consult.
