Christmas Eve seriously got out of hand for the Argentinian Facundo Medina. As AFP reported on Sunday, December 26, 2021, the defender of RC Lens ended up in custody after a violent argument with his wife. For his part, the team claims that the alleged victim is in fact the ex-girlfriend of the 22-year-old footballer, also from Argentina.
The facts denounced occurred during an argument at the sportsman’s home in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), on the night of December 24 to 25, while he was spending New Years Eve with “several people”, said to AFP Benoît Gauthe, deputy public prosecutor of Arras. The team specifies that the sportsman had been joined by a former girlfriend and the father of the latter. An argument therefore broke out and the young woman would have been the victim of violence on the part of the footballer. The latter would have first refuted this accusation and according to a close source cited by our colleagues, it is the ex-companion of Facundo Medina who “would have thrown herself to his neck“before the latter”push it away firmly without committing violence“.
Summoned by the police on Sunday morning, the Argentinian was taken into custody in the wake of “willful violence”. Violence he finally has “partially recognized“According to Benoît Gauthe. The footballer was released around 1 p.m. Sunday.”Follow-up will be given“to this case, and Facundo Medina”will be summoned“later, he added. the team claims that the young woman was prescribed a day of total work interruption (ITT) before filing a complaint. Again with AFP, Benoît Gauthe specified that she “left home“.
The Racing Club de Lens has issued a statement in which it calls “with the utmost restraint and leaves it to the competent authorities to shed light on the facts “.
Facundo Medina remains presumed innocent of the facts alleged against him until the final judgment of this case.