The two international rugby players Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou will be questioned by a judge in Argentina on Thursday.
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“The players are heard to put forward their version”explains lawyer Me Antoine Vey, Thursday August 8, while rugby players Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou are going to be questioned by a judge in Argentina. The two French internationals are accused of aggravated rape, in a group, on the night of July 6 to 7, in a hotel room in Mendoza, where the French XV came to play a friendly match. The complainant was heard on Tuesday.
Since the start of the investigation, the two 21-year-old rugby players have admitted to a sexual relationship, claiming that it was consensual and denying rape. Their French lawyer claims that they have “necessarily the same version since they are telling the truth”. “Their truth is simple and clear, it is consistent with the elements that are included in the file”he assures.
According to him, the use of the term “presumed” For “presumed victim” Or “presumed guilty” East “a form of language reserve that distorts what justice is today and they are, in fact, presumed innocent, they are innocent and it is very hard to see their image tarnished.”
Mr. Antoine Vey claims that Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou have not “not at all the profile of two rapists”, because they are “top athletes”, “people who have never had to deal with the law”, “who have a remarkable personality”. “Today, people’s fame protects them very little, quite the contrary”he emphasizes.
A forensic report, carried out on July 7, the day the complaint was filed, noted fifteen injuries recorded on the complainant’s body. According to the lawyer, this is a “big scam”. He castigates “the over-mediatization of a position which is very fragile in fact, which is perhaps a feeling, which is perhaps the expression of something which is intimate to this person.”
The complainant stated in an interview with the newspaper: Diary One from Mendoza, have clearly “say ‘no'” to a sexual relationship. “The evidence is solid and real. I was deceived from the first moment. In the nightclub, I said ‘no’ to a sexual relationship,” she said. Her lawyer, Natacha Romano, said she had “marks on the back, bites, scratches, blows to the breasts, legs and ribs.”