2024-09-04 06:48:36
Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou left Buenos Aires during the night from Tuesday to Thursday. Hours after Argentine courts lifted a ban from the South American country targeting two French rugby players, they appeared just before 9pm at Ezeiza International Airport in the south-west the sun of the capital. They were welcomed by their Argentine lawyer, Rafael Cúneo Libarona, and around fifteen French and Argentinian journalists.
Also accused of gang rape, the two 21-year-old foreigners did not make a statement, appearing with closed eyes in front of the cameras. They boarded an Air France flight that left at 11:50 pm to Paris – Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, where they will arrive this Thursday at 5:45 pm. That is, 58 days after they were arrested and then questioned by the police in Buenos Aires, following an interview by a 39-year-old woman for the actions which took place on the night of July 6 to 7 in a hotel in the city center of Mendoza.
The players, who declared their innocence, “very much want to go,” said their adviser Rafael Cúneo Libarona to the press on Tuesday evening when he arrived at the airport. The return to France is “the first step of the highest, the most important,” he added, “perhaps more important than the dismissal of the case, the second step, because the order to leave the country means that justice is trusted our work.” The lawyer said he had “no doubts” about dropping the future of charges against the rugby players, even believing he would be able to “get it within ten working days”.
“Terrible movie that shouldn’t have happened” according to the players’ lawyer
While describing the case as a “horror movie that should not have happened” and the release of a “false, false complaint” from the alleged victim, Rafael Cúneo Libarona also welcomed “the important vote of confidence of the public prosecutor’s office of Mendoza”, which issued a decision authorizing his return to France on Monday. Which was approved only the next day, after the decision of a final procedure. Regarding the sports future of Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, the committee considered that there is “no reason why they should not play rugby, their job”, remembering that they have been “innocent criminals” since the beginning of the case.
Also accused of brutal rape in a meeting, the French returned to Buenos Aires on August 27 after 47 days in Mendoza, including 26 under house arrest with electronic bracelets. Released under conditions on August 12, they remained until Tuesday banned from leaving Argentina, even after getting their passports back. The second line of Pau and the third line of La Rochelle are now waiting for the attorney general Mendoza to rule on the request for divorce submitted eight days ago by their lawyers.
According to several judicial sources, it will not be “not before this Wednesday”, the date of the hearing during which the report of the science and the theory of the accused – an important element in the investigation – should be completed and then added to the file. . Unless the legal deadline is extended, the question will be examined by September 10 by Judge Eleonora Arenas, “through a closed hearing during which the lawyers of both parties and the prosecution will be able to present and defend their arguments”, according to reference. by the district prosecutor’s office. “We will oppose the request for withdrawal because the investigation has not been completed,” said again this Tuesday Natacha Romano, the lawyer of the accused, who said that he “is not completely compatible” with the decision of the Argentine court to authorize Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou returned to France.
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