French rugby players are cleared of sexual assault in Argentina
Hindustan TimesBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine court on Tuesday dropped aggravated sexual assault charges against two professional French rugby players accused of raping a woman after playing a match in the country earlier this year. HT Image The judge in Mendoza, some 1,000 kilometers west of the capital of Buenos Aires, dismissed the case against the 21-year-old athletes, Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jégou, citing insufficient evidence. The explosive case began in July, when a 39-year-old Argentine woman filed a police complaint alleging that she was beaten, choked and repeatedly raped by the rugby players in their Mendoza hotel room. The federation added that this close shave with the law served as a reminder “of the need to create new conditions to prevent and avoid risky behavior in high-level rugby, in order to train responsible and exemplary players.” It said the organization had always defended the presumption of innocence and advocated for the athletes' “dignified and safe conditions” while on trial in Argentina.
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