A Argentina the court rejected the aggravated judgment grated accusations against the French international rugby Players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, the two players’ lawyer said on Tuesday, drawing a line under a dark period for the European country’s rugby community.

Auradou and Jegou, both 21, have been under investigation since July 12 for aggravated rape – a charge used for an alleged gang rape – in Argentina’s western province of Mendoza , after they both made their international debuts.

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Both players have always denied any wrongdoing and claimed the sex was consensual.

“The judge has just ordered the acquittal of the players, considering that this act did not constitute a crime,” the French players’ lawyer, Rafael Cuneo Libarona, told Reuters. “The dismissal is not due to doubt, but to the fact that the crime did not exist.”

The two players spent several days in preventive detention and almost a month under house arrest in Argentina. They were finally allowed to leave Argentina at the beginning of September, upon their return to France.

Auradou has played eight matches with his club, Section Paloise, since returning to competition on October 5 while Jegou returned to action on November 2 with Stade Rochelais and has played four matches.

French Rugby Federation president Florian Grill told Reuters in October that they would no longer play for the French team “until the case is closed.”

(Reuters)