Almost two years have passed since that tragic March 19, 2022, when former rugby player
Federico Martín Aramburú
was murdered , after a fight in a bar in the city of Paris that ended in a brutal shooting against the former Argentine athlete.
Aramburú was Puma #623 and had won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Cup in France with the national team.
Fede
, as his relatives called him, was murdered by two militants from a far-right group,
Romain Bouvier
(he shot four times) and
Loïk Le Priol
(he fired six shots, three of them in the back), who are in prison waiting. of the trial.
In addition, the two are members of a French far-right cell
Groupe Union Défense (GUD)
.
To date, the investigation is still ongoing and the trial should take place before the end of the year.
The suspect of killing the former Puma on a screen inside the Budapest Metropolitan Court as he arrives for his virtual hearing at the Zahony Police Station.
AFP photo.
"Meurtre en Ovalie"
(Murder in Ovalie), is the documentary made by 1:15 p.m. Le Samedi, which will be broadcast on France TV Sports.
This report talks about the story of the murder of the Argentine rugby player in the streets of the French capital and includes the testimony of those close to Aramburú.
Cecilia, his mother, gave a moving testimony.
"Hate is left to those who hate. What we have experienced, I would not wish on any parent, not even on the parents of these people with bad minds,"
Aramburú's mother begins speaking, as they walk through the hallways. from the cemetery of the city of Biarritz, where the Argentinean's remains rest.
"They were not crazy people, drunks in a bar episode. They were racists, supremacists. They had no right to be together in Paris. They could not have weapons. They had already been arrested and should have been under surveillance
," Cecilia continues, alluding to the two murderers. .
"The only thing I hope is that Fede's death is not in vain. That's the only thing I hope,"
concludes the former athlete's mother, who can be seen in tears, accompanied by her son's family and friends.
"Je ne souhaite à aucun parent de vivre ce qu'on a vécu"
Il ya two ans, Federico Aramburu était tué à l'issue d'une bagarre contre deux militants d'ultradroite.
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Both Bouvier and Le Priol had previously received a sentence, also for violence, and that is why both attackers could not be together or return to the city of Paris.
Much less be armed.
In addition,
Le Priol had been separated from the French armed forces with post-traumatic stress
after participating in missions in the Middle East in mid-2015.
Another person who participates in the documentary is Shaun Hegarty, a friend, former partner and partner of Federico Aramburú, who was with him when the attack occurred.
"From the moment the first shots were fired, my brain froze. I see what's happening, but I'm in slow motion mode. I'm there, but I'm not really there
," Hegarty begins, recounting the events of the tragic evening. .
Shaun Hegarty (right) with Federico Martín Aramburú (left)
"When Le Priol shoots Federico again is when I realize the seriousness of the scene. I tell myself that it is a nightmare, and I almost say to him: 'Come on, let's go to the hotel, let's go home.' unreal
," adds the 40-year-old New Zealander.
How Federico Martín Aramburú was murdered
On March 19, 2022,
Federico Martín Aramburú
was in Paris with his partner and friend, also former player Shaun Hegarty, with whom he shared a team in the city of Biarritz.
Together they had created a tourism company based in Biarritz that organized sports tours, with contingents who wanted to see rugby or football outside that city.
The Argentine and the New Zealander were in the French capital for reasons related to the World Cup in France that was held in 2023 and their tourism company.
After a day of meetings and dinner at an Argentine restaurant, they both went to the bar "Le Mabillon."
In said place, two people began to insult another with racist and xenophobic insults.
Aramburú and his partner intervened
and went from shouting to fist blows.
There was a fight that security employees defused, but which resumed on the street, with extreme violence.
The former Puma was left lying on the ground.
When the fight dissipated, the former rugby players and partners headed towards the street where they were ambushed by a jeep from which the two attackers from the bar got out.
Four bullets from Romain Bouvier and six from Loïk Le Priol, three of them in the back, were the ones that ended the life of Federico Martín Aramburú.