Jegou-Auradou case: accused of rape, the two French rugby players released but must remain in Argentina

| August 12, 2024 | Sport | No Comments

This Monday, August 12, 2024, Argentine justice decided to release the two French rugby players, Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou, at liberty. However, the players must remain in Argentina.

The two French rugby players charged with rape in Argentina were released on Monday, a little over a month after their arrest, but will have to remain in Argentina while the investigation continues , announced the public prosecutor's office in Mendoza (west).

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The prosecution considered that at this stage, the "sufficient elements have not been gathered"to justify the continued preventive detention of Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, charged with aggravated rape. They had been imprisoned after their arrest on July 8, then placed under house arrest on July 17 in Mendoza.

The spokesperson for the prosecution, reading a statement to journalists at the Mendoza judicial center, indicated that the “withholding of their passports, the ban on leaving the country, and on contacting the complainant” remained in force. Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, both 21, remain charged with aggravated gang rape on the night of July 6-7 against a 39-year-old Argentinian woman in a hotel room in Mendoza, 1,000 km from Buenos Aires, where the French XV had just played a test match against Argentina.

The alleged victim, who had met the players in a nightclub, says she was raped and assaulted in their room. The defendants acknowledge a sexual relationship, but claim it was consensual, and deny any violence. The players' French lawyer, Antoine Vey, welcomed their release to AFP, “an expected decision, which constitutes a crucial step towards the judicial recognition of the innocence” of the two players, which he said he hoped to see come to fruition “in the coming weeks”.

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