Jegou and Auradou affair: “a trauma” for the XV of France, declares Fabien Galthié
During a press conference in Montevideo this Tuesday, July 9 alongside the president of the Uruguayan federation, the coach and the captain of the Teros, Fabien Galthié spoke briefly on the case which involves two of his players, Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou, arrested the day before following a complaint of sexual assault during the French XV’s tour in Argentina. “For the group, for the delegation, it was experienced as a trauma,” he declared.
French rugby players Jégou and Auradou indicted for aggravated rape in Argentina
Players of the French rugby team Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou were charged on Friday July 12 with aggravated rape by the Mendoza public prosecutor’s office following an indictment hearing and face up to 20 years in prison, we learned from a judicial source. “The unit of the Mendoza public prosecutor’s office responsible for crimes against sexual integrity (…) has formally indicted the two French citizens who are the subject of an investigation by the Mendoza public prosecutor’s office for sexual violence with penetration, aggravated by the participation of two people,” the Mendoza public prosecutor’s office (north-west Argentina) said in a statement. The two players “will remain in detention” during the study of the request for placement under house arrest filed by the defense, it is specified.
Rugby: Jonathan Sexton looks back on the stormy end of his international career
Failed again. Favorite for the world title during the last Rugby World Cup organized in France, Ireland once again stopped in the quarter-finals (its historic glass ceiling), beaten by the All Blacks, future finalists. In his autobiography which will soon be published (Obsessed – The Autobiography of Johnny), the emblematic opener of the Club XV, Jonathan Sexton, returned to the stormy end of this quarter-final, which meant the end of his international career.
