A preliminary investigation was opened on Monday, July 4, after the filing of two complaints for “sexual assault”, “sexual harassment” and “moral harassment”, by the Nanterre prosecution against André Santini, the mayor (Union of Democrats and Independents , UDI) from Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and vice-president of Greater Paris, learned The world from judicial sources. She was entrusted to the brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person.
The two complaints, revealed by The worldwere filed on 1is July by two former close collaborators of the city councilor, 81 years old: his former chief of staff and his former bailiff.
The two plaintiffs have in common to have been rejected by the mayor, in mid-May, officially for “breaking of the bonds of trust necessary to [leur] collaboration ». In fact, Mr. Santini reproached them for sick leave due to Covid-19, accusing them, on May 19, of having “discredited the firm” and to have caught the virus during a “orgy”.
Marc, ex-bailiff (2011-2020) and former chief of staff to the mayor (2020-2022), and Pierre (the first names have been changed), former bailiff (2020-2022) of Mr. Santini, assured the Monde to have suffered “touching”, mainly on the lower buttocks and thigh. “It’s happened hundreds of times that he caresses mesays Mark. I spent over ten years having my thigh touched. »
The former mayor’s chief of staff claims that Mr. Santini, in the summer of 2021, “literally threw himself” on him in an elevator. “Sexual Assault” which constitutes in his eyes “a trigger”. “I was paralyzed, glued to him. He started putting a hand on his back, and a hand on his stomach, then started rubbing it. His face was about four inches from mine. Arrived at 2e floor, I pushed him away, and got out of the elevator first, walking briskly to my desk. »
“Culture of impunity”
Pierre reveals that it was in April 2022, two weeks before his eviction, that “it’s gone into a spin”. That day, according to his account, André Santini ” try to [l]’embrace “ twice et « to approach [l]by hand [s]we crotch”.
Marc and Pierre say they took care of whole sections of the city councilor’s personal life. Beyond writing his speeches, managing his public and private correspondence and his press review, they have, according to their story, had to feed the fish in Mr. Santini’s aquarium; pick up his pen that has fallen on the ground; pick up his medication at the pharmacy, prescription in hand; fill your pill box daily; butcher; list his many incomes and pensions; clean his cigars and coin collection at home; butter his sandwiches and order the bottle of champagne consumed by the former deputy of Hauts-de-Seine (1988-2017) “every lunchtime at the expense of the municipality”according to Peter.
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