ラグビー仏代表２選手から「激しい」暴力、被害女性の弁護士明かす

【メンドサ（アルゼンチン）ＡＦＰ＝時事】ラグビーフランス代表の選手２人から性的暴行の被害を受けたと訴えているアルゼンチン人女性の代理人弁護士は１０日、被害者が「激しい」暴力を受けて複数か所を負傷したとＡＦＰの取材に明かした。一方で加害者側は、合意の上だったと主張している。（写真は、ＡＦＰの取材に応じる、被害女性の弁護士のナタチャ・ロマーノ氏）
　弁護士のナタチャ・ロマノ氏はＡＦＰのインタビューに応じ、被害女性の訴えについて説明した。同氏によると、被害女性（３９）はナイトクラブで出会った男一人と７日早朝にアルゼンチン中部メンドサのホテルに一緒に向かい、そこで数時間にわたって意に反して監禁され、虐待を受けたと主張しているという。
　女性の顔や背中、胸、脚、あばらなどには殴られたことを証明するあざがあり、かみ跡や引っかかれた傷も複数あるという。
　「暴力は激しいものだった」と述べたロマーノ弁護士は、「捜査すべき犯罪は一つだけではない」としている。
　ウーゴ・オラドゥとオスカル・ジェグの２選手は、６日に行われたアルゼンチンとのテストマッチの２日後にブエノスアイレスで性的暴行の疑いにより拘束されており、事件が起きたメンドサへの移送を待っている。同地では検察官の尋問を受ける予定となっている。
　一方で選手側の代理人を務める弁護士のラファエル・クネオ・リバロナ氏は、「性的関係」は「合意の上」で行われたと述べた。
　リバロナ氏は記者団に対し、「彼女（被害女性）がホテルから出ていくのを見た目撃者がおり、出ていくところを写したカメラもある。映像にはけがの様子は映っていないようだ」とコメントしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/07/11-19:33）

The Argentine woman accusing two French national rugby players of rape suffered fierce violence at the hands of her assailants, sustaining multiple injuries, her lawyer told AFP on Wednesday.
The pair, 20-year-old Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, 21, are waiting to be transferred from Buenos Aires to the city of Mendoza where the alleged crime took place and where they will be questioned by prosecutors. They have not been charged with a crime.
Natacha Romano sat down with AFP on Wednesday to lay out her client's allegations.
She said the woman, aged 39, claims to have accompanied one of the men to a hotel in central Mendoza in the early morning hours of Sunday after they met at a nightclub.
Once they entered the hotel room, the woman realized that the invitation for a drink was a ruse and asked to go to the restroom.
The man realized that she wanted to escape, immediately grabbed her, threw her on the bed, started to undress her and savagely started to beat her with his fist, said Romano of her client's account of the alleged incident.
The woman has bruises on her face, back, breasts, legs and ribs to prove the beating she took, said the lawyer, as well as various bite and scratch marks.
The violence was fierce, said Romano. There is more than one crime to investigate.
- 'Devastated' victim -
The complainant said she was choked until she nearly passed out, at which point the rape began.
A second assailant entered the room later and joined in the rape and the beating, according to the victim's account.
Romano says her client claims to have been raped at least six times over a period of hours by the first assailant, and once by the second.
She managed to escape from the hotel at about 8:30 am, a woman degraded, devastated, said Romano.
Auradou and Jegou have claimed through their defense lawyer that they had consensual sex with the accuser.
Romano told AFP that the overwhelming proof that there was no consent is the victim's body and the wounds it bears.
The men were detained at the prosecutors' request on Monday in Buenos Aires, from where they were due to have flown to Uruguay for a rugby match with France's national team.
If the men are charged, Romano said she would ask the court to remand them in pre-trial custody.
The charge, she added, should be sexual assault with carnal access, the Argentine legal definition for rape, along with use of violence.