Octavio Bartolucci told details of his encounter with Federico Martín Aramburu before he was murdered

The world of rugby dawned with sad news: former Puma Federico Martín Aramburu was murdered after starring in an altercation in a bar in Paris. Although he was not next to the one who emerged from the CASI quarry at the time of the shooting, Octavio Bartolucci had dinner hours earlier with the Argentine in a restaurant and in dialogue with TN provided details of what happened that night.

“It is difficult to wake up with this news after spending the whole night together”, began his story on the wing that began his sports career at Club Atlético del Rosario. “We, with Marcelo Bosch, José Orengo and Fede, got together to eat after years without seeing each other. We ate at a restaurant. All 10 points. Telling us about life, children, work. When we finished eating we went somewhere else. Then Josi and I went to sleep and he stayed that he had to wait for a partner,” warned the fourth-finalist at the 1999 World Cup in Wales.

According to the French press, Aramburu met at the Le Mabillon bar with his friend, former Biarritz Olympique teammate and partner, Shaun Hegarty. Both were planning to attend this Saturday's match between France and England at the Stade de France for the Six Nations Tournament. “There has been a dispute as can happen at dawn. It was solved, but those men have returned and shot Aramburu three times,” one of those present told the AFP agency.

“He has a travel agency and was with a group that takes them to rugby games. We type 2 said about going to sleep. In the morning we heard the news. Where we met was an Argentinian bar, where I took the group of people to the games. But it's a different place where we ate,” Bartolucci clarified. “He went on to meet that other person, who I don't know. We were close to her hotel, you can see that I had to wait for her there,” he added.

Former Sporting Union Agen from France and Leeds Carnegie from England remarked that “we disconnected with him at 2 in the morning. We gave each other a hug, because we hadn't seen each other in years. After 2 in the morning we don't share anything with him anymore.”

“He lived quietly here, we were very good, with that undertaking a couple of years ago. He was very enthusiastic,” concluded Bartolucci, still astonished by what happened.

The Sudouest media, for its part, added that “the other two protagonists would have headed towards them on board a green Jeep driven by a third person. They opened fire several times and the Argentine was hit several times by bullets, at the intersection of rue de Seine and Boulevard Saint-Germain. Shaun Hegarty was unharmed.”

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