Former Wallabies star Peter Kimlin is one of six rugby players arrested in France for allegedly drugging and gang raping a woman in a hotel after a match.
Kimlin, 31, was detained by French police after a 21-year-old woman claimed she had been raped.
The former ACT Brumbies forward, who now plays for Grenoble, was arrested along with New Zealand pair Rory Grice and Dylan Hayes, Irish pair Dennis Coulson and Chris Farrell and French hooker Loick Jammes.
The woman said she met the players in Bordeaux following their match against Bordeaux-Begles on March 11, was drugged at the nightclub and taken back to a hotel.
According to French news website La Dauphine, the club has fired all players involved.
While he ‘respects the presumption of innocence’, Grenoble club president Eric Pilaud says there will not be an internal enquiry because he ‘doesn’t think the players want to answer our [the team staff’s] questions’.
The six men were questioned by police and were later arrested.
Police also questioned Grenoble club official Michel Martinez for two hours as a witness, according to local reports.
Several other Grenoble club officials and players were also reportedly expected to be questioned as witnesses.
Kimlin has played two Tests for Australia, making his debut against Italy in 2009 as a starting flanker.
The Canberra product left the Brumbies for France at the end of the 2013 Super Rugby season.
Grenoble last week suspended the players under investigation but did not reveal their identities.
‘FC Grenoble Rugby is deeply affected by these events, which in no way correspond to the values we defend and to which we firmly believe,’ the club said in a statement on March 17.
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