“A big blow for everyone”, at AG Thèze no one understands the arson of the club’s locker rooms

From a bad joke quickly passed, AG Thèze is now aware of being the target of a strange relentlessness. After the stadium's electrical cables were cut, after the theft of jerseys and training equipment, here it is now an arson caused in the locker room buildingusing a ram car stolen from one of the club's leaders. All in less than fifteen days. Enough to disgust managers, players and volunteers while the derby against Nord-Béarn was to take place that same afternoon. A period of uncertainty begins for the Avant Garde.

“Some had tears in their eyes”

“The first words that come out as soon as we see the destroyed locker rooms are: “ that was my place », « I sat in the corner there “, now we will never go back there again“, laments Vincent Chabbert, AGT coach. He is one of those who came to see the damage at the municipal stadium, and like the others, he does not understand what could justify such an act. “Some players had tears in their eyes when they saw this, they are dejected, they shook up our lives as rugby players but also our family livesit's a big blow for everyone“, continues Vincent Chabbert.

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Co-president Jean-Charles Dupin spent several hours of the day with the police, in particular to file a complaint, he knows that the future will be complicated for the club: “We are going to face difficult days, but there is great solidarity at the club, in the village. Even if we are down, we want to give ourselves options to continue. In the coming days, it will be logistics, finding where to train, how to possibly still host certain matches, and otherwise where to relocate them.“. According to Jean-Charles Dupin, the charred building is to be razedwhich makes him say that it will take many months at AG Thèze before finding a truly comfortable situation.

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