Former rugby player Djibril Camara in police custody for leaving his children alone at night

In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the former French rugby player Djibril Camara went in the evening, leaving his three and seven year old children alone at his home, according to information from the daily The Parisian. The two little ones were found in pajamas and socks by a trader in the street in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) who called the police for the safety of the children, says the site News. The police then arrested the 33-year-old former international of the XV of France (4 selections), before placing him in police custody.

A nanny contacted but Camara leaves before her arrival

The former Stade Français player had custody of his three-year-old daughter and four-year-old son at the weekend. Heard for “subtraction of a parent from his legal obligations to the point of compromising the safety, health, morals or education of his minor child”, Djibril Camara explained that he was preparing to go to the evening and had contacted a nanny to look after the children. He would then have left his home before the babysitter arrived, not wanting her to meet the woman he was about to go out with.

No one knows yet whether or not the nanny showed up at his house. The little girl, worried, would however have woken up her brother to go in search of their father who was no longer there. Released from police custody on Monday, the former tricolor international was summoned before the prosecutor’s delegate for a parental responsibility course. Djibril Camara, dismissed for serious misconduct by the Stade Français in 2019, faces up to two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.