Top 14: Haouas wants to play for ASM, Clermont sends him to labor courts

At 29, Mohamed Haouas was to discover the second club of his career. Trained in Montpellier, the pillar had spent his entire career at the MHR. The native of Le Havre had not extended his contract in Hérault and was to join Clermont from July 1.

Except that in the meantime, Mohamed Haouas, already known to the justice services, was sentenced to one year in prison for domestic violence. Shortly after this decision, the ASM published a press release indicating that the player could not wear the colors of the club.

According to L'Equipe, the Auvergne club has started proceedings for early contract suspension before the industrial tribunal. The pillar with 16 selections with the XV of France is expected before the board on June 21. Mohamed Haouas, who would come there with his wife, would also plan to go to the infrastructure of the Clermont club on July 1, the date of the start of his contract.

"We have made a request for interim relief to the industrial tribunal for a suspension of the contract so that it is not active on July 1," the Clermont club told AFP, confirming information from L'Equipe. .

The hearing is scheduled for June 21 in Clermont, told AFP the player's lawyer, Marc Gallix, who defended him during his immediate appearance before the Montpellier court for "domestic violence" on May 30. .

At the end of this hearing, the pillar with 16 selections with the XV of France was sentenced to one year in prison after hitting his wife, who was smoking a cigarette in front of the shopping center where she works, a sentence that can be adjusted and whose conditions will be discussed at a new hearing on June 26.

This assignment before the prud'hommes, estimated Marc Gallix, "seems totally unfounded insofar as they (the leaders of Clermont, editor's note) ask for the suspension of a contract which has not yet begun to be executed since it is effective from 1 July”.