Attack on French rugby player.

[joemac]

Has there been any coverage of this in the Non-NZ media? It seems a strange story. It was reported here (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=10579969) that the French player Mathieu Bastareaud had been assaulted outside a hotel after the Wellington test, and the police were looking for leads. Then, on Tuesday, the police said they were "treating the allegations as genuine" (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=10580164), without saying why they would say that. Today, the CCTV footage at the hotel is released, showing him walking into the hotel, uninjured (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10580714). And it turns out that the French team has not made a complaint.Mmmmm, what is going on???

[Patson]

they gay all gays...... lol.... go NZ

[joemac]

Thank you Patson. Very constructive. Are you drunk again?

[boards]

what patson said.

[Shifty]

I reckon he tried it on with one of the women that went back with them to the hotel. She probably told him no, and hit him with a bottle or something.

Probably the last thing he wants to admit is that he got beaten up by a woman.

[Tricky Nicky]

I will go with Shifty's explanation - she was probably a Bokke fan!

[Angelshark]

He probably deserved it. Hit him in the mouth.

[barto11]

Ja...even for a guy that big, 5 Maori's are gonna be hard to fight off...NOT

http://www.supersport.com/rugby/article.aspx?headline=Bastareaud%20admits%20to%20l ying%20over%20attack%20&id=305595

[pennymac]

Nah, I haven't heard anything here.
It sounds like a pretty weird story!

[joemac]

And sure enough the truth (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=10580806) comes out. He made it all up because he got pissed and fell over in his room. And the French team seem complicit in the story too, because they didn't make much of a meal of it. I mean even the NZ Prime minister was on TV saying Sorry!

[sprout]

Bad enough that he lied and said he was attacked, but to claim it was a racist attack?

[joemac]

Apparently, the French management have made some deal with the police here, and they are not going to release information supposedly very embarrassing to them. I don't know what the police got in return.

[Shifty]

Don't think he'll be coming back to NZ any time soon..

[Patson]

Thank you Patson. Very constructive. Are you drunk again?

So was i right or wrong JM

[joemac]

Mmmmm, I'll let you have that one.

[joemac]

The thot plickens.


(http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=1)[/URL]
Bastareaud treated after suicide attempt - report

11:48AM Tuesday Jun 30, 2009
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Mathieu Bastareaud admitted he lied about a Wellington assault. Photo / Mark Mitchell


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Kerre Woodham: Pardon my French? Yeah right (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10581073)
Bastareaud admission after police suggestion (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10580806)
Paper claims Bastareaud 'punched by teammate' (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/?objectid=10581335)



PARIS - The Mathieu Bastareaud affair took a macabre new twist today as the boss of his club revealed the player had been admitted to hospital suffering from "serious psychological problems," while a press report said he had tried to kill himself.
"He is completely wiped out," Max Guazzini, president of the Paris club Stade Francais, told the French news agency AFP.
The well-informed sports daily L'Equipe (http://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/20090629_152035_bastareaud-hospitalise.html), quoting what it described as "several sources close to the player," said Bastareaud had tried to commit suicide.
Last week, Guazzini had said Bastareaud - in disgrace for falsely saying he had been attacked by thugs during les Bleus' stopover in Wellington - was heading for the French West Indies for a holiday.
Today, though, he said Bastareaud had been placed in specialised facility in the Paris region, whose location was secret. He was likely to be there under observation for at least two weeks.
Guazzini lashed the press for what he called "harassment of a 20-year-old boy."
"Journalists even went to his home and his parents' home. He is completely wiped out, he has to be left alone," he said.
The AFP report did not say when Bastareaud had been admitted, or what his symptoms or the treatment were.
It came as the French Rugby Federation (FFR) was weighing how to punish the young centre for his lies.
After the Wellington police amassed evidence that he had sustained his facial injuries after returning to his hotel in the early hours of June 21, Bastareaud said that he had drunk too much and fallen over, hitting his head on a bedside table.
He said he had invented the story about the attack because he was terrified of being kicked out of the French team and of having to face the anger of his family.
Some French media reports, though, have suggested he was whacked by a teammate after they returned to the hotel with a couple of women.
The scandal has continued to make the headlines in France.
"We are going to look like a bunch of liars across the Southern Hemisphere, where the next (Rugby) World Cup is going to be played. It's not very positive for French rugby," former Bleu Philippe Saint-Andre said in an interview with the radio station RMC.
"Mathieu is the one who is the one who is being punished the most," said former international Thomas Lombard. "It's sad, for a player who is so young and talented."

[jiggs]

Washed up as well I would guess