2023-11-22 10:54:00
“The blow hurt me but it hurt a hundred times less than the insult… I had just lost my mother, my black mother… I said to myself: ‘You can’t let this go’ , also thinking about the future of my children”, confided Yannick Larguet, one of the two victims, in his interview with the newspaper The team published Wednesday.
Bastien Chalureau, who participated in the Rugby World Cup with the French XV, was sentenced at first instance to six months in prison, suspended for racist attack.
The attorney general requested an eight-month suspended prison sentence against the Montpellier second line, tried on appeal last week.
The decision of the court of appeal will be rendered January 16.
“A motivated attack”
A few days before the opening match of the 2023 World Cup against the All Blacks, Bastien Chalureau, in tears, refuted the accusations of racism around this affair which dates back to 2020 in Toulouse.
“I kept quiet during the World Cup, even though I was extremely busy. The World Cup in France is an incredible opportunity, supporting and preserving the French team was my priority. I also tried to protect my family. But this is no longer possible. When I read that he claims that the victims are lying and when I hear that this story is nothing other than a fight, an altercation…”further explained to The team Yannick Larguet, a former player from Colomiers and Agen.
“Between the lines, that means it was a night fight, between drunk rugby players. That’s not the truth. When you get hit from behind when entering a parking lot, by being called stupid, it’s not a fight. This is the most extreme cowardice. In a fight, there are two people facing each other who want to fight. Semantics are important. This is a motivated attack.”added the former winger or center, aged 43.
Bastien Chalureau, who played at Stade Toulouse at the time, called him after the attack: “But at no time did he apologize. He wanted to know how we could work things out, settle the matter without it getting out. Right away, I understood that it wasn’t going to work. not going well”said Yannick Larguet.
“At the end of our conversation, I told him: but I will go to the end. And you forget to apologize. We are not rugby players who fought,” he added.
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