London (AFP)

Tottenham's Ivorian international defender Serge Aurier is said to have broken the strict distancing rules required in England for the third time and his club has opened an internal investigation.

Aurier posted a photo on Instagram on Tuesday showing him alongside his hairdresser, Justin Carr, sporting a new haircut.

"Yes Sir, #LeCoiffeurEstBon ??", he wrote in legend.

The players are supposed to have no contact with people outside their family circle.

"We are investigating the circumstances and will consider the incident appropriately," Tottenham said in a statement on Wednesday.

Aurier reacted to these new criticisms, once again his Instagram account: "Bla-bla-bla", he wrote in a new message, followed by several emojis. "My hairstylist is negative (with coronavirus) and I too, so stop talking in a vacuum and put on masks and gloves when you come to take pictures at the training center, that is also part of the rules".

Aurier is not at his first game: at the end of April, the ex-defender of Paris-SG had posted a video on his Instagram account where we saw him, mask on his face, doing short sprints then sitting at side of his teammate Moussa Sissoko, without respecting the safety distance.

The two players apologized in a statement and made a donation to the UK healthcare system.

Two weeks earlier, this same Aurier had already filmed himself jogging side by side with a friend.

The 27-year-old Ivorian arrived on Wednesday at the Spurs training camp in Enfield, where players coached by Jose Mourinho - who himself broke the rules by meeting several of his players in a park in early April without respect for distances - had to train once the result of their Covid-19 screening test was known.

The United Kingdom, the second country in the world most bereaved by the new coronavirus (more than 41,000 dead), began last Wednesday a slight deconfinement, affecting only England alone.

Residents can take their car to go to a park or the beach, play tennis or golf, see a friend outside, go to a garden store or go to work, but while respecting a distance two meters with each other.

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