2024-09-06 07:08:34
The 39-year-old Argentine who accused French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou of rape in July, said, in an interview with AFP, to feel “abandoned by the justice system”, which allowed the players to return to France, but assured that “social justice will condemn them” as “rapes”.
“I feel that the justice system has failed me in Mendoza. They treated me as a criminal while I was the victim,” “Maria”, as she wants to be known, told AFP in an interview Wednesday evening in Mendoza (west).
The two actors, Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, returned to France on Wednesday evening, after the Argentine courts authorized them to leave the country, following the recommendation of the public prosecutor’s office Mendoza, for whom “the first charge was lost your power.”
A request for removal is pending
The actors, who said that the sexual relations were consensual, are accused of aggravated rape because they had a meeting, and the hearing must in the coming days examine the request for removal submitted by their lawyers.
Bitterly, “Maria” thinks in her interview that “money moves mountains, and (what) France raised a lot of money to try to get them out of the country, as it succeeded.”
“More The one above will judge them, The one above know the actions they have taken. And I have no doubt (…) that justice will be done. Justice will be done by justice, they will be blamed in society, because my testimony is true and honest,” he insisted.
“I don’t get anything anymore”
Maria returned briefly to the events of the night of July 6 or 7, repeating the version that had already been presented several times in the press by her lawyer.
He also said that he met Auradou in a nightclub, followed him to the hotel with the intention of continuing to drink in his room – “because I was still drunk” – but that when he saw that there was no alcohol , he wants to leave, and the players stop him, he claims.
From that moment on, “when he took me by the hair and forced me, I didn’t accept anything anymore.” And I don’t have a chance to get out” of the room, he continued, without going into details about the sexual acts.
But “they both sexually assaulted me,” she reiterated, referring to Oscar Jegou, who returned to the hotel room later. “Both hit me” and “must pay.” “Not less than 20 years in prison” – the maximum sentence is basically for gang rape. “They are not heroes. These are two bad apples in French rugby,” he alleged.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Today, “Maria” says that she suffers from “post-traumatic stress”, having “flashes of situations that I remember, and others that I don’t”. And having to “correct both legs, knees, calves, no less than 60 kinesiology sessions”. He mentions “returns on (s) our body because of the wound we made.
Saying that he was “angry about the government, the direction of the prosecutors and the orders coming from above”, he explained that this anger made him decide to talk to the media, “to (I) rise up, and find the courage that I didn’t have a few days ago. And “so that this does not happen to other women.”
He also said that he stood on “for (mes) children. I am a 39 year old mother of two young children.
Asked about the threats of further proceedings against him, a proposal was raised, but not decided at this stage, by the Argentine lawyers of the two players, he attacked in return one of these lawyers, Rafael Cuneo Libarona, who is brother of the present. Minister of Justice in the government of Javier Milei.
“This lawyer does not have a good soul, I am the one who will sue him, for all the professional mistakes he has made”, for having as “insulted” him, and “treated as a prostitute VIP,” he said that
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