By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 50 minutes ago, Updated 4 minutes ago
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The Blues, without their two players charged with aggravated rape, landed at Roissy on Monday evening.
The French XV, which left Buenos Aires on the night of Sunday to Monday at the end of a South American tour that turned into a nightmare, landed at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday at around 7:45 p.m., two hours late, noted an AFP journalist on board the Blues’ plane.
The French, dressed in their official blue uniforms, travelled on board an Air France commercial flight which also included the Argentine athletes on their way to the Paris Olympics, which begin on July 26, according to AFP.
Some of them took a direct connecting flight to return home, like Toulon scrum-half Baptiste Serin, who was named captain of the French XV for this tour. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
Two players are missing
The plane took off from Buenos Aires on Sunday evening with a little over two hours of delay at the end of one of the worst weeks in the history of French rugby, which saw two young players from the team, Pau second row Hugo Auradou (20 years old, 1 cap) and La Rochelle third row Oscar Jegou (21 years old, 1 cap), charged on Friday with aggravated rape by the Argentine justice system.
The two players are accused of raping a woman on the night of July 6-7 in a hotel in Mendoza, in the northwest of Argentina, where the French XV had just played the first match of its tour.
Auradou and Jegou, who talk about sexual relations “consented” according to their main Argentine lawyer, have been placed in detention. The examination of their request for placement under house arrest should take “at least ten days”the Mendoza prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
A few hours before the first revelations about this alleged rape, another player from the French XV, Toulon full-back Melvyn Jaminet (25 years old, 20 caps), had been removed from the group after making racist remarks in a video published on July 7, which he said he was “ashamed”.
The sporting record of the South American tour of the Blues, far in the background, is two victories – on July 6 against Argentina (28-13) then on July 10 in Uruguay (43-28) – and a defeat against the Pumas (33-25) on Saturday.
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