The former International and Player of Olympic Biarritz, Retired since 2012, was killed by a firearm near the hotel in which he stayed in Paris, after a violent altercation with several men on the Boulevard Saint-Germain .
Le Monde with AFP
The 42-year-old Rugby Federico Martin Argentine player, was killed by Balle in Paris on the night of Friday 18 to Saturday, March 19 after an altercation in a bar.
The facts took place at 6 hours Boulevard Saint-Germain in VI e Arrondissement of the capital. According to The information from the South West newspaper , Federico Aramburu and his friend Shaun Hegarty, another former Olympic Biarritz player (BO), were in a Bar located on the boulevard when a violent altercation broke out with two table neighbors. “There was an altercation as there may be at the end of the evening”, according to a former Bo player, present on the spot and who wants to remain anonymous.
Arramburu and Hegarty would have joined their hotel near “to ask for ice”, according to Philippe Jouvet, a lawyer of the two former players. The other two protagonists would have caught up on board a vehicle driven by a third person and reportedly on the two old rugbymen. “They came back soon after with a vehicle and shot fire,” said a police source. Federico Aramburu was touched and succumbed on site to his wounds, while Shaun Hegargty escaped unscathed.
“Several impacts” bullets were recorded on site, added a source close to the Flagrance Survey for Assassination which was opened and entrusted to the criminal brigade, according to the parquet of Paris. The suspects were still sought after Saturday at the end of the morning, according to sources close to the file.
“Someone of very generous on the ground”
The Olympic Biarritz Rugby Club, where Arramburu played between 2004 and 2006 and with which he won two championships of France, reacted in the morning, addressing “[s] are more sincere condolences to his family, his close “and” ensures its total support “.
We learn the death of Federico Martín Aramburú in tragic circumstances. The whole BOPB address is … https://t.co/tjiiazokcv
His old club of Perpignan also made part on Twitter of its “immense sadness to the announcement of the death [of the former player] in tragic circumstances” and addressed “to his family and his relatives his most sincere condolences”.
“It was someone very generous, in the image of the Argentines,” reacted, for his part, Julien Peylongue, one of his former teammates at the time of Greater Biarritz, from France blue Pyrénées-Atlantiques . “He was very quickly integrated into the group, it was a very generous person on the ground, who never dropped anything, someone we could trust. I liked to use the term” with whom we could go to war “”
Aramburu had also been president of the socios of the BO between 2015 and 2018 and had served on the Board of Directors of the Basque Club, which he had decided to leave in February 2018. The former player had also played two Matches at the 2007 World Cup, including one against the XV of France, where he marked the third Argentine test . Member of the Golden Generation Argentina, he will honor 22 selections for the national team.
Since his sports retreat, he still lived in Biarritz and worked for a tourist company.