On Thursday, France 2's Envoyé Spécial program exclusively aired footage of the players' evening at the nightclub before the aggravated gang rape. According to the bartender, Melvyn Jaminet and Hugo Auradou were “alcoholics”.
New elements shed light on the evening and night of July 6 or 7, in which Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou were accused of aggravated gang rape of a 39-year-old woman.
On Thursday, September 12, France 2 dedicated part of its Envoyé Spécial program to this business. The channel collected the testimony of an employee of the bar where several players of the XV of France spent part of the evening.
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“They ordered a big bottle,” the young man assured “They also drank gin and tonic, Bombay and vodka, in fact most of them were euphoric, they had just won their match, they were jumping. they were coming behind the bar, touching everything, as far as I could see, they were drunk.”
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Then, in a surveillance video released by the bar manager to France 2, we see Hugo Auradou, a drink in hand. Le Palois would later explain to the judge that he did not really remember the amount of alcohol he drank that evening.
In other images, we recognize another controversial player. Melvyn Jaminet dances by the bar. A few minutes later, the Toulonnais recorded a video in which he made racist remarks, a video published a little later on his social networks. Comments that earned him an eight and a half month ban from the FFR (French Rugby Federation).
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As a reminder, in an interview with Gauthier Baudin, Florian Grill, president of the FFR, explained that the players “did not respect the rule”. Before continuing: “There is a tour captain named Baptiste Serin who said 'around 1:30 or 2 in the morning, everyone goes back to the hotel.' the hotel and who decided to go out.”