2024-02-22 15:04:05
The French Senate, in Paris, January 31, 2024. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP
An investigation was opened after a report from the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, regarding “on a potential sex tape used for blackmail purposes” within the Luxembourg Palace, declared Thursday February 23, the Paris prosecutor’s office, requested by Agence France-Presse (AFP). The investigations were entrusted to the Brigade for the suppression of delinquency committed against persons of the Parisian judicial police, said the prosecution, confirming a source close to the case.
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This report was issued after an article in Chained duck of February 7 evoking “a sex tape” involving “a senator”. This intimate video would have become ” a mean of pression “ for a medical assistant who, according to the weekly, had seen her salary “quickly increased by 45%”.
The investigators will look into facts likely to fall under three offenses punishable by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 60,000 euros, added the public prosecutor: firstly, the transmission of the image of a person presenting a character sexual; secondly, the use, retention or disclosure of a document or recording containing words or images of a sexual nature, obtained through invasion of the privacy of another person; and finally the dissemination, without the person’s consent, of a recording or document relating to words or images of a sexual nature and obtained with their consent or by themselves.
The Senate shaken by another affair
In addition to this report, the AC Anti-Corruption association filed a complaint on February 19 to ask the Paris prosecutor’s office to open an investigation for misappropriation of public funds, illegal taking of interest and breach of trust. On February 7, the Senate doctor also sent an email to all 348 senators.
In this writing, of which AFP had a copy, the doctor made the link between his dismissal – from February 15 – and the compromising video, which he said he had reported. He mentioned the case of the medical assistant, recruited according to him “on the basis of false diplomas”. This would hold “compromising elements of her lover”presented as “an authority of the Senate”in order to “keep a lever of pressure in the event of possible difficulties”.
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But a highly placed Senate source told AFP on February 9 that the doctor’s dismissal was justified by the discovery of a “professional activity [exercée] in parallel with its functions » and that “seriously compromised the proper functioning of the medical office and the administrative team”.
Another affair recently shook the Senate. In November, Loire-Atlantique senator Joël Guerriau was indicted, suspected of having drugged a deputy without her knowledge with a view to possible sexual assault. He disputes these accusations.
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