According to information from the newspaper l'Equipe, which we are able to confirm, the pillar of the XV of France Mohamed Haouas (16 caps) was placed in custody late Friday afternoon for domestic violence. According to the Team, it would be domestic violence. The events took place in the city center of Montpellier before he was arrested by CRS and then placed in custody. He's still there, this Saturday morning.
While MHR plays Sunday against Pau in the last game of the season, Mohamed Haouas could miss the call and leave his club through the back door to join Clermont, where he has signed a three-year contract. He was also excluded from the group last week against La Rochelle following tensions in the dressing room and a sharp verbal altercation with his coach, Philippe Saint-André.
Already two previous cases
The pillar of the XV of France, who participated in the last Six Nations Tournament, has already had to deal with justice. In 2022, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison suspended and a fine of 15,000 euros for burglaries carried out in tobacco shops in Montpellier and its region in 2014. Then, Mohamed Haouas was again summoned by the courts for acts of violence in assembly with weapons also dating from 2014. The verdict will be rendered on June 30 where the prosecutor requested a two-year suspended prison sentence against the French international.
"I'm not a savage, we had a good night in a nightclub and then we were at the bakery, we were laughing and now I take a punch. I go to defend myself, he pulls out a gun and shoots twice, I thought he had hit me, I saw red, I thought I was going to die," he defended. It remains to be seen how his new club, Clermont, will react to this new case.
