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Un tribunal australien se prononce sur les conditions de la libération sous caution de Kurtley Beale

CARDIFF, PAYS DE GALLES - 19 NOVEMBRE : Kurtley Beale (Australie) observe l'entraînement et le photocall de l'équipe australienne de rugby à la House of Sport le 19 novembre 2021 à Cardiff, au Pays de Galles. (Photo par Harry Trump/Getty Images)

L’arrière des Wallabies Kurtley Beale, suspendu, a vu les conditions de sa libération sous caution modifiées afin qu’il puisse éventuellement jouer au rugby en France dans l’attente de son procès pour agression sexuelle. Le joueur de 34 ans a demandé une modification des conditions de sa libération sous caution mardi 1er août, après avoir plaidé non coupable d’un chef d’accusation de relations sexuelles sans consentement et de deux chefs d’accusation d’attouchements sexuels en juillet dernier.

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Les procureurs de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud se sont opposés en vain à cette demande, estimant qu’aucun contrat n’avait été présenté et qu’il n’y aurait aucun contrôle ni aucune possibilité de faire respecter par Kurtley Beale les conditions de sa mise en liberté sous caution en dehors de l’État.

Beale aurait agressé sexuellement une femme de 28 ans à l’hôtel Beach Road, près de Bondi Beach, en décembre 2022. Les allégations contre Beale sont un « cas assez classique », a déclaré mardi son avocat Margaret Cunneen SC.

Beale est en négociations pour reprendre sa carrière de rugbyman à l’étranger, a-t-elle précisé, mais ne peut conclure aucun contrat sans la restitution de son passeport.

« Plusieurs offres de clubs français ont été formulées », a-t-elle affirmé.

Kurtley Beale ne quittera pas le pays tant qu’un contrat n’aura pas été signé, mais il a besoin que sa caution soit modifiée pour que cela se produise, a-t-elle ajouté.

La remise en liberté sous caution de Kurtley Beale lui permettrait de quitter la juridiction malgré les graves accusations d’agression sexuelle dont il fait l’objet, a rappelé le procureur de la Couronne Darren Robinson. Tout en étant convaincu que Beale reviendrait pour son procès devant la NSW District Court en janvier, M. Robinson a averti que tout pouvait arriver pour l’empêcher de revenir à Sydney en cas de besoin.

« Lorsqu’une personne quitte la juridiction, ce tribunal n’a potentiellement aucun contrôle sur cette personne… un certain nombre de choses peuvent se produire lorsqu’une personne quitte la juridiction », a-t-il averti. Darren Robinson a suggéré que Kurtley Beale pourrait même être blessé ou se retrouver à l’hôpital, ce qui l’empêcherait de revenir à Sydney en cas de besoin.

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Margaret Cunneen a indiqué que son client pouvait également être hospitalisé si sa caution n’était pas revue pour lui permettre de reprendre sa carrière d’athlète professionnel. « Il est plus probable que M. Beale finisse dans un hôpital psychiatrique s’il n’est pas en mesure de retrouver une certaine structure dans sa vie », a-t-elle affirmé.

Le tribunal a appris que Kurtley Beale présentait des symptômes de dépression, d’anxiété et de stress. M. Robinson a expliqué au tribunal qu’une condition imposant à M. Beale de s’abstenir de boire de l’alcool serait inapplicable dans un pays étranger.

« Il ne semble pas contesté que M. Beale était fortement alcoolisé dans les heures qui ont précédé et pendant la commission des infractions présumées », a-t-il déclaré.

Au final, Kurtley Beale pourra récupérer son passeport s’il présente à l’officier de police chargé de l’enquête la preuve d’une proposition de contrat, a décidé le juge Antony Townsden mardi après-midi.

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Il devra en outre  être de retour en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud avant la fin de l’année 2023 et remettre son passeport dans les 24 heures suivant son retour. Une caution de 50 000 dollars sera également exigée 48 heures avant son départ, et la police devra être informée de son itinéraire et de son lieu de résidence.

Kurtley Beale était assis derrière ses avocats, vêtu d’un costume à carreaux bleus et de chaussettes brodées des Wallabies, et n’a fait aucun commentaire à la sortie du palais de justice Downing Centre, dans le centre de Sydney.

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I think we need to call out the red card non-decision here and acknowledge the damage that France, through Galthie, have done to confidence in the officaiting and citing process.

It started when Garry Ringrose had club matches included in his ban following similar precedents for (Atonio, Haouas, Danty) who were all carded/cited in match just before fallow week and club matches counted. Ntamacks citing was in week 1 and harder to demonstrate availability for club match with another International match between. Preceednt ~(O’Mahony 2021) was followed. Reading the written decision for Ntamack shows that Galthie understood this perfectly. Yet after the Ringrose ban included club matches, Galthie publicly goes berserk screaming ‘Injustice (against France”. Again, he knows the precedents for Ringrose are all French and indeed the only person preceding Ntamack to have club matches count in that situation was France’s Willemse.

The media swallowed this up wholesale and the story started circulating and being added to without a single journalist/pundit (except rush Mirror) actually reading the Ntamack decision. Sneaky Ireland had better briefs than honest naive France was one random addition by a pundit which becamse accpeted fact without checking etc and added to the circulation.

Angered by losing his star player Galthie again lashes out. He knows know he can de facto attack individual players, the media won’t intervene and as long as he doesnt directly attack an individual official he will stay out of trouble.

So he attacks players who then het threatened by some lunatic French supporters online. Ireland are ‘Butchers’ apparently. The passive head contact earning Nash a yellow now becomes a double head hit on Barrassi, requiring a double red.

France who have more dangerous tackle citings under Galthie than all other six nations combined. They get more favourable outcomes than all other teams. poor France are now the victims of great injustice. It is farce.

But it paid off.

Mauvaka struck the Scottish Scrum half with a diving head butt in Sundays match. Its a clear red. Scotlands back line attack looked superiors to France’s and Scotland were there or there abouts.

What I can only assume is the chilling affect on Galthie’s public attacks Carley send it to the bunker. A deliberate head butt is a clear red on more than one count. There is no doubt, bo grey area.

If thats a red card do France win the match? I would say that Scotland are likely winners, which would have meant England winning the title.

Spilled milk now, but World Rugby, the citing commisioners and officials cannot allow big Unions to publicly intimidate the officiating process and attack individual players from other teams.

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