The losing of fees in opposition to Hugo Aurad and Oscar Jego attracts a series underneath a twilight length for France’s rugby folk.
An Argentinian court docket pushed aside rape fees in opposition to two French global rugby avid gamers accused of assaulting a girl later a fit within the nation, the avid gamers’ attorneys stated.
“As we expected, the French players have been acquitted because the [sexual] act was consensual, meaning there was no crime and no doubt that they are innocent,” defence attorney German Hnatow stated on Tuesday later the listening to within the town of Mendoza.
Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, each elderly 21, have been arrested two days later successful their first global caps for France in opposition to Argentina in Mendoza, about 620 miles (1,000 kilometres) west of the capital Buenos Aires.
The lady, whom they met in a nightclub at the evening in their July 6 fit, stated they assaulted her viciously within the resort room.
The pair insisted that they had consensual intercourse with the girl.
The avid gamers have been saved in preventive custody for a negligible greater than a generation and next underneath space arrest for almost a past sooner than being allowed to go back to France later prosecutors stated the case in opposition to them gave the impression flimsy.
The prosecution then referred to as for the costs to be dropped.