The pair, 20-year-old Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, 21, are waiting to be transferred from Buenos Aires to the city of Mendoza where the alleged crime took place and where they will be questioned by prosecutors. They have not been charged with a crime.

Natacha Romano sat down with AFP on Wednesday to lay out her client’s allegations.

She said the woman, aged 39, claims to have accompanied one of the men to a hotel in central Mendoza in the early morning hours of Sunday after they met at a nightclub.

Once they entered the hotel room, the woman “realised that the invitation for a drink was a ruse” and asked to go to the restroom.

The man “realised that she wanted to escape, immediately grabbed her, threw her on the bed, started to undress her and savagely started to beat her with his fist,” said Romano of her client’s account of the alleged incident.

The woman has bruises on her face, back, breasts, legs and ribs to prove the beating she took, said the lawyer, as well as various bite and scratch marks.

“The violence was fierce,” said Romano. “There is more than one crime to investigate.”