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France prop Mohamed Haouas cops 15 month suspended sentence

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France prop Mohamed Haouas has been handed a suspended sentence for his role in a spate of burglaries in 2014.

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The long-running criminal court case has now been settled, with Haouas given a 15-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay a €15,000 fine. Haouas will be questioned regarding an alleged robbery of tobacconists in the Montpellier area nearly eight years ago, in which it alleged he handled a stolen vehicle.

The thefts were said to be worth in the ten of thousands of euros.

The 27-year-old previously spent four days in custody for his suspected involvement in the 2014 incident.

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Haouas is part of Fabien Galthie’s squad for this year’s tournament but had been withdrawn ahead this weekend’s game with Italy in Paris.

The 122kg tighthead was apparently linked to the burglary as a result of CCTV evidence shown to police, which depicted one man who “moved like a rugby player”.

A French court heard how Haous’ journey from the streets and a potential life in crime to international rugby presented a great example for young people.

“It’s an exemplary journey for young people, and I realise that,” said the prosecutor in the case. “He wants to repay his debt and close this chapter.”

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Giving evidence by way of character reference, the defendant’s father said: “We ate at charity-run restaurants, we lived in hostels, it was a little bit difficult. I struggled in life, I sorted things out, I’m proud of having built a family, a home.”

As yet there has been no comment from the FFR or Montpellier on the matter.

The Montpellier prop made his international Test debut against England in 2020 and has been caught up in a number of firey incidents, not least decking Scotland Jamie Ritchie in the Six Nations with a big right hand in (pictured above).

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JW 1 hour ago
Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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