2023-09-06 00:38:08
He had hit a nurse in a clinic in Biarritz in August 2022: Antoine Battut, 39, former coach of Aviron Bayonnais, was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison suspended and a fine of 3,000 euros.
Tried on July 4 at the Bayonne court alongside a former physical trainer from the rugby club, Cyril Gomes, who was with him at the time of the events but was acquitted by the court, Battut had recognized the violence from the start of the match. affair and publicly apologized.
On August 23, 2022, when one of their friends had been taken to the emergency room in the early morning after a scooter accident, the two men had insisted on seeing him, while the nursing staff refused them under the health protocol in vigor. The tone was raised and Antoine Battut, in a state of intoxication, had struck “two or three punches” to a nurse, as well as to a young caregiver.
The Bayonnais rugby club, which demanded 50,000 euros from its former coach “in view of his damaged image”, was dismissed from his request.
The former player admitted “a loss of composure”
At the hearing, Battut, a former Racing 92 player (2010-2014) acknowledged a “loss of temper” and said he was very affected by this widely publicized affair. Me Antoine Binet, Battut’s lawyer, argued that his client had already suffered enough in this case, that he “was already ashamed enough” and had requested an exemption from sentence.
For his part, Gomez claimed not to have struck the slightest blow that evening and, on the contrary, to have tried to calm his companion. Yann Le Bras, Gomez’s lawyer, insisted on the sincerity of the two defendants and pleaded for the release of his client. “Throughout their sports career, they have not had to be blamed for a single overflow of behavior, he said. We have two good guys here…”
“The problem is not that there was one, two or three punches that evening, explained the public prosecutor, Jean-Claude Belot, in his indictment. This violence is recognized, assumed, explained. The fact remains that they are real, inadmissible, especially in the place in which they take place. »
The representative of the public prosecutor then asked against Antoine Battut, 8 months suspended prison sentence, 3000 euros fine as well as a citizenship internship and against Cyril Gomez 6 months suspended prison sentence and 1000 euros ‘fine.
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