The officialization arose from a message published by the Pau Section in the Top 14, the Béarna club especially supported the return of Hugo Auradou. The 21-year-old, at the center of a rape case in Argentina, will start from the second row and will wear number 4.
Earlier, Sébastien Piqueronies announced this return during the traditional pre-match press conference. “ He will start the meeting. The day has come to put it on a rugby field, and it will be tomorrowexplained the coach of the Pau Section. He is in good physical shape. Nothing prohibits him from playing rugby, he is presumed innocent. Today it is up to those who defend him and the club’s management to assume coherence, as they have done from the beginning. » During part of the training session that served to prepare before the match, the son of former international David Auradou wore one of the shirts reserved for the current champions.
Hugo Auradou, like Rochelais Oscar Jégou, remains under investigation in Argentina for aggravated rape committed at a meeting. The two players had traveled to South America to play in the last summer tour of the France team. They are accused by a 39-year-old woman, with whom they had sexual relations on the night of July 6 to 7, in a hotel room in Mendoza. Initially released under judicial control, they were allowed to return to France in early September.
Oscar Jégou has not returned yet
Five days after his return, Hugo Auradou had resumed training, first following an adapted program and then with his teammates from the Pau Section, but until now he had not been called up by the technical team to compete. Oscar Jégou resumed training at the end of September and will not be in the Stade Rochelais match against Lyon, which will also take place on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. The two players are awaiting the hearing date to examine the dismissal request presented. at the end of August by his lawyers. On Friday, the Mendoza Prosecutor’s Office also requested the dismissal of the case.
The previous week he validated a psychiatric and psychological expert report on the complainant in which his two co-authors indicated “a series of inconsistencies and contradictions (…) which overall paints an unlikely story.” For her part, the complainant considered, on Thursday, before a legislative commission, that her rights were “despised” by the courts, after having requested in vain, through his lawyers, the recusal of the two prosecutors in charge of the investigation.
