In an excerpt from a program of Envoyé Spécial published Tuesday, before its full broadcast on September 12 on France 2, the 39-year-old complainant recounted her version of the night of July 6 to 7, when she met Hugo Auradou in a nightclub in Mendoza. “When he asked me to go for a drink at his hotel, I said yes,” she said in voice messages sent to Envoyé Spécial journalists.
“He grabbed my neck, put me on the bed and undressed me like a brute.”
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She then explained that once she arrived in the hotel room, she asked to leave. But Hugo Auradou allegedly prevented her: “He grabbed my neck. He put me on the bed. He undressed me like a brute. He pulled me out of bed while I was naked and he lifted me by the neck, so much so that I had no more oxygen. I tried to react by slapping him. Instead of stopping him, this slap encouraged him to continue.”
According to the complainant, Oscar Jegou then entered the room. After believing that the player was going to help her, she explained that he “abused (her)”. “At that time, I was speechless. I couldn’t scream because my vocal cords were damaged. The blond sexually abused me once. It was without a condom,” she added.
Willebrand disease
Both players deny any violence and claim that the sexual relations with the complainant were consensual. The players’ lawyers filed a motion last week to dismiss the case, for which a hearing date has not yet been set.
“Everyone asks me today: ‘The door was open, why didn’t you come out?’ I couldn’t go out because Hugo was always around me. I preferred to let him do it after all the blows I received. If that wasn’t the case, I might not be alive today,” the complainant continued before listing her injuries, attaching photos to support her testimony.
When similar images were published in the Argentine press last week, Me Antoine Vey, the players’ French lawyer, recalled that the investigation “subsequently established that the complainant had hidden from the courts the fact that she suffered from Willebrand disease”, a hemorrhagic pathology, a coagulation disorder, which can predispose to bruising or bleeding.
