“We spoke to his wife”: the proprietor of Biarritz justifies the recruitment of Mohamed Haouas

“I recognise that this recruitment stunned some humans. It is through a letter, posted on the site of his circle of relatives’s suppose-tank, that the owner of Biarritz Olympique, Louis-Vincent Gave, justifies this Monday the appearance within the Basque club for the two subsequent seasons of the pillar Mohamed Haouas, sentenced at the cease of May to one year in prison for home violence. Because if Clermont has decided to terminate the settlement of his ex-future participant and that the French Rugby Federation deprives him of the World Cup, the formation which evolves in Pro D2 chooses to revive him.

“Some of you even took the time to ship me messages to specific your anger at this information, writes Louis-Vincent Gave. I thank them right here for those messages. These supporters love our membership and do not hesitate to specific their ardour. Being myself the husband of the same female for two decades, the father of four kids (including two teenagers) and the son of mother and father who've themselves been married for fifty-five years, I am firmly convinced of the importance of the couple because the very foundation of our society. So I recognize the dismay of some supporters. But I don’t percentage it. »

 

For what ? The Biarrot boss refutes any opportunism after having attracted a 29-yr-old worldwide (16 caps) in the second department. “The maximum crucial notion is that of forgiveness,” he says in his textual content. Before recruiting Mohamed Haouas, we spoke to his spouse, who informed us: Thank you from the lowest of my coronary heart for giving us a risk to make a fresh begin. »

He assaults the Minister of Sports

“Sin is hateful, the sinner never”, keeps Louis-Vincent Gave, before transferring directly to a rather surprising parallel mixing General de Gaulle and Joseph Darnand, a parent of collaboration with the occupier throughout the Second World War. “Judgment belongs only to God”, insists Gave, who says he was “deeply stunned” via the mind-set of the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. This had welcomed the “firmness” of the FFR in this document which considered “inadmissible” and “incompatible with the representation of our nation at the international stage” the condemnation of the player.

Words that rock inside the mouth of the minister within the letter, wherein Louis-Vincent Gave questions the “separation of powers”. “That day, I called Jean-Baptiste (Aldigé, the president) and asked him to discover and spot if we ought to assist Mohamed, his wife and youngsters, says the proprietor. I desire to make pals with him, as with all our gamers, over the coming seasons. »