Mohamed Haouas’ file, concerning the adjustment of the twelve-month prison sentence for “domestic violence”, pronounced against him on May 30, will be transferred to Bayonne in the coming days. Indeed, the player having recently signed up with the Biarritz club, which plays in Pro D2, the competent judge to supervise the application of this sentence is no longer that of Montpellier but the one on which the new place of residence depends. This procedure will have the effect of delaying the decision for several months. Expected during the month of September, it should finally be taken only at the very end of the year.
The lawyer for the international law pillar, Me Marc Gallix, who will continue to follow this case, had proposed two adjustments to the sentence: parental parole which, in the case of Haouas, is unlikely to be retained, or wearing an electronic bracelet. In the meantime, the player, who will settle in Biarritz on Wednesday, will therefore be free to move around when he received a second sentence on June 30 (eighteen months in prison, nine of which are closed for “aggravated violence” ), which will be retried on appeal within a period of up to two years and which is added to that, dating from February 2022, for burglaries of tobacco shops (the facts for these last two convictions date back to 2014).
While he was dismissed from the France team and released by ASM Clermont-Auvergne (against financial compensation) which had signed him for three years, the recruitment of Mohamed Haouas, 29, by the club of Biarritz (Pro D2), shocked several groups of supporters as well as the mayor of Biarritz Maider Arosteguy. Asked by the Mediabask site, she said she was “worried about the image sent not only to women but also to young people. What is the image we give them in a troubled period of our history like this where we need solid and healthy benchmarks? This recruitment shows that one can idolize or admire a man who has committed abuses by putting him on the front of the stage. For his part, the owner of the club, Louis-Vincent Gave, spoke of the notion of “forgiveness” and the desire to “help Mohamed, his wife and his children”.
