2023-11-23 04:30:51
Former Béarnais MP Jean Lassalle, targeted by an investigation for rape and sexual assault, was given a free hearing on Tuesday in the premises of the Bordeaux judicial police, we learned on Wednesday from the prosecution. The 68-year-old former shepherd “came out free without prosecution at this stage”, indicated the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the newspaper Sud Ouest.
This preliminary investigation, opened this summer, concerns facts dating back to 2010. According to Sud Ouest, the 45-year-old complainant claims to have been raped in a hotel in Bordeaux during the campaign for the 2010 regional elections, for which Jean Lassalle was head. of the MoDem list in Aquitaine. Two witnesses must still be interviewed before transmitting the file for study, said the prosecution. Contacted, Jean Lassalle was not immediately available.
Lassalle targets European elections
The Pyrenean elected official sat for two decades in the National Assembly, under the label of the UDF, then the MoDem and finally his Resist! movement. Mayor for 40 years of the village of Lourdios-Ichère (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), champion of rurality, the double candidate for the presidential election did not stand for re-election in the last legislative elections. He justified his decision by “medical imperatives”.
In the summer of 2023, Jean Lassalle was one of the candidates in the second season of the investigation game Les Traitors, broadcast on M 6. He recently declared in an interview with the newspaper Le Parisien that he was being courted for the European elections. of 2024 and “want to become an MEP”.
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