Tuesday, at 3 p.m. local time, after a video conference with Sylvain Deroeux, secretary general of the French Rugby Federation, Dominique Castella, 61, president of the Guyana rugby committee, put an end to the hunger strike that he had started sixteen days earlier, on Monday October 30, to protest against the failings of the FFR. “We can tolerate the physical side,” he explains on the phone from his office at the town hall of Saint-Laurent du Maroni, where he is deputy mayor, “I lost almost ten kilos but it’s okay. Mentally, it’s more complicated, I realized that little by little. Such an action weighs on the family, those around them, dealing with this worry has been complicated. I have been involved in rugby in Guyana for thirty years and I never thought it would come to this…”
