Piñeyrua emphasized that Aramburu’s death “produces great sadness, especially for Argentine rugby”, while sending “a big hug to his family, friends and teammates from the clubs he joined in his sporting career”.
This afternoon the second date of the SLAR tournament will take place, which includes the matches that will be played in the city of Valparaíso, Chile, Los Jaguares-Olimpia Lions from Paraguay, Peñarol from Uruguay-Cafeteros from Colombia and Cobras XV from Brazil- Selknam.
Piñeyrúa, 48, former player of the Uruguayan club Old Cristians de Montevideo, was coach of the Uruguayan national team, “Los Teros”, between 2003 and 2006 and later of the Uruguayan youth teams.
Aramburu, 42, was shot to death after an incident that occurred at 6:15 local (2:15 in Argentina) at the Le Mabillon gastronomic venue, in the Saint-Germain neighborhood, which he had attended with the Frenchman Shaun Hegarty, his partner commercial and also former teammate at the Biarritz Olympique club.
The ex-rugbiers started a argument with two men who were located at an adjoining table and were invited to fight on the touristy boulevard Saint-Germain. Several men joined the altercation, reported the newspaper Le Monde. The beating ended when one of them exhibited a automatic pistolreconstructed the newspaper Le Parisien.
Minutes later, Aramburu and Hegarty were walking along the touristy boulevard Saint-Michel when they were approached by a Jeep brand vehicle -according to military-looking versions-, from which at least four shots were detonated.
The Argentine received between two and three bullet wounds and died before the rescuers arrived at the scene to help him.
Federico Martín Aramburu, a native of La Plata, began his career at Club Atlético San Isidro (CASI) and played 22 international matches with Los Pumas, with whom he was the protagonist of the historic third place in the 2007 World Cup in France.
In rugby in that country he played between 2004 and 2010 with the jerseys of Biarritz Olympique, Perpignan and Dax. He won the French Championship in 2005 and 2006 with his first team.
Already retired from activity, in 2014, Aramburu founded the Esprit Basque travel agency, located in Biarritz, together with Hegarty.
Source: Ambito
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