Secretary of State Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, a gynecologist by profession, is the subject of a third complaint, filed this time for violence without incapacity for work by a person responsible for a public service mission, announced on Friday June 24, the Paris prosecutor’s office. .
The complaint was filed Thursday, according to the same source, confirming information from “Daily”. The broadcast of the TMC channel had collected the testimony of this patientwho says he suffered “gynecological violence” during a date in 2018 with Mme Zacharopoulou to treat his endometriosis.
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The Paris prosecutor’s office has already opened an investigation, on May 27, after the filing of two rape complaints against Mme Zacharopoulou. According to the weekly Marianne, who revealed the case, the alleged acts were allegedly committed in the context of his profession as a gynecologist. The investigation was entrusted to the brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person.
“Unacceptable and revolting” accusations
The Secretary of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships reacted on Friday in a press release sent by her lawyer: “The serious accusations against me, relating to medical clinical examinations carried out in order to diagnose and treat the illness of my patients, are unacceptable and revolting”. Claiming to have learned of the existence of these complaints from “press lane”Mme Zacharopoulou se dit “shocked and deeply hurt”. She claims not to have “never imposed the slightest examination on any of [ses] patients without their consent.
“I have no knowledge of the content of these complaints, which I would like to point out were filed in the days following my appointment to the government and which relate to consultations which allegedly took place several years ago”she emphasizes again.
Elected MEP in 2019 on the Renaissance list, Mme Zacharopoulou, 46, was named secretary of state last month. The previous government had entrusted her with a mission last year on the subject of endometriosis, a subject on which she has been committed for years. Its report was submitted in January to the Elysée.
Thursday evening on LCIthe Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, declared that Mme Zacharopoulou had him “says she [avait été] very surprised even shocked that we can question his medical practice”. “But I think that the complaints are filed, justice will do its job” and the Secretary of State “will have the opportunity to explain”continued M.me Thick headed. She qualified as “important debate” the one “Consent when doing exams”.