fifteen “lesions” observed on the body of the complainant in the Auradou-Jegou case

A forensic report carried out the day after the rape of which the two French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou are accused, revealed fifteen lesions on the complainant’s body.

Fifteen “lesions” were found on the body of the complainant in the aggravated rape case in which French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou were charged in Argentina, an Argentine judicial source confirmed to AFP on Monday July 22.There are fifteen marks, which we call lesions. It is not determined whether they come from blows or pressure. [exercées sur la peau]”, Martin Ahumada, spokesman for the justice system in the province of Mendoza, told AFP, confirming the newspaper’s revelations. The Parisian this week-end.

The information comes from a forensic report following an examination carried out on Sunday July 7, the day the complainant filed a complaint accusing the two French internationals of aggravated rape, her lawyer, Natacha Romano, confirmed to AFP.

The complainant had “marks on the back, bites, scratches, blows to the breasts, legs and ribs“, Me Romano had declared in a previous exchange with the AFP. Antoine Vey, one of the players’ lawyers, declared in an interview with RMC that it was “fake news total“, speaking of information”extrapolated, decontextualized“.

The two players, aged 21, are accused of raping the complainant on the night of 6 to 7 July in a room at the Diplomatic Hotel in Mendoza, a thousand kilometres west of the Argentine capital, where the French XV had just played a test match against Argentina, and the two forwards had obtained their first selection for France.

The two players admit to having sexual intercourse with the 39-year-old complainant, but claim that it was consensual and deny any form of violence. Arrested on July 8 in Buenos Aires, where the French delegation had returned, they were transferred to Mendoza on July 11 and charged the following day with aggravated rape, as it was committed in a group. They left the detention center on July 17, after being placed under house arrest.