XV of France: Mohamed Haouas positioned in pre-trial detention earlier than being tried on Tuesday

Mohamed Haouas will undergo prison earlier than being judged. Placed in police custody Friday at the cease of the day for home violence on his spouse, the proper pillar of the XV of France and Montpellier changed into introduced on Sunday morning earlier than the Montpellier prosecutor’s workplace. The 29-year-vintage participant changed into then remanded in custody via the freedom and detention judge, in line with his lawyer Marc Gallix. The latter asked release beneath judicial supervision pending his judgment in immediately look scheduled for Tuesday at the start of the afternoon.

But the magistrate ruled that the liabilities of the pillar, champion of France with the MHR last season, did no longer allow him to be released earlier than going again to the Montpellier courtroom. Mohamed Haouas turned into sentenced in February 2022 to an 18-month suspended jail sentence for a sequence of five burglaries perpetrated in 2014 within the Montpellier area. He additionally seemed in a retrial in May, this time for allegedly beating a nightclub manager with others inside the same year.

He faces up to three years in prison.

The player will consequently spend the night within the prison of Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone (Hérault) before being constant on his judicial destiny in this trial for home violence. The tricolor worldwide changed into filmed Friday at the give up of the day physically attacking his spouse, mom of his  youngsters, within the heart of downtown Montpellier. Heard Saturday morning in police custody, Haouas admitted the data.

He faces up to a few years in jail and a first-class of 45,000 euros. Not to mention that justice could also revoke the reprieve of his preceding sentence. His spouse, according to numerous assets familiar with the matter, did no longer wish to file a complaint. “In the hobby of the 2 children, she does not want him to visit prison”, assures Me Marc Gallix.

Sportingly, his fate has additionally darkened. The player manifestly does now not seem within the organization selected through Montpellier for its closing Top 14 healthy of the season on Sunday night in Pau. His departure for Clermont, which formalized his arrival for three years at the start of the yr, is likewise puzzled. His participation within the World Cup (September 8 – October 28) with the Blues, where Fabien Galthié had established him as a starter on the start of his term in 2020, is also very incredibly uncertain.