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Handball: accused of attempted rape, Benoît Kounkoud recalled to the French team

Winger Benoît Kounkoud, accused of attempted rape, is in the group of 23 players summoned on Friday by the coach of the France team, Guillaume Gille, for the two friendly matches in Montpellier against Argentina on March 14 and Egypt two days later.

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Handball: accused of attempted rape, Benoît Kounkoud recalled to the French team

Winger Benoît Kounkoud, accused of attempted rape, is in the group of 23 players summoned on Friday by the coach of the France team, Guillaume Gille, for the two friendly matches in Montpellier against Argentina on March 14 and Egypt two days later.

“As the investigation into the personal situation of Benoît Kounkoud is still ongoing, he remains eligible for selection and is included in the list announced today,” the French Handball Federation said in the press release, which “remains attentive to developments in the matter.” judicial and, depending on the results thereof, reserves the possibility of reversing this decision.

Kounkoud played again on Thursday in the Champions League, for the first time since the revelation of the affair, with his Polish club Kielce, which had suspended him on February 2.

He is accused by a 20-year-old woman of having tried to rape her in a Parisian nightclub less than 48 hours after the Blues' coronation at the Euro, on January 28 in Cologne (Germany).

Gille also summoned Vincent Gérard. The usual starting goalkeeper of the Blues (37 years old, 150 selections) was not selected for the Euro due to convalescence after pubalgia.

He joined Istres in the second division on February 14 after being released by Kiel six months before the Paris Olympic Games, his last challenge since he announced his retirement at the end of the season.

“It is a necessity to open up the Olympic project with Paris 2024 which will begin in less than 150 days. This is why I wanted to review all the driving forces, namely the group of 23 players in whom we had trusted to prepare for the Euro,” declared Gille in the Federation press release.

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