2023-11-19 18:59:11
Initially kept secret, his name was finally revealed a few days after the affair broke out. MoDem MP for Loire-Atlantique Sandrine Josso accuses Senator Joël Guerriau of having drugged her without her knowledge during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Sandrine Josso claims to have had a drink with her parliamentary colleague on Tuesday evening. Throughout the evening, the senator from Loire-Atlantique would have prepared several drinks for him, according to the MP’s account. She noticed “strange behavior” in him: Joël Guerriau began to increase the intensity of the light dimmer, also looked at her “insistently” and said he wanted them to “party together,” she said. to investigators.
Ecstasy ingestion confirmed by analyzes
According to her lawyer, Sandrine Josso saw Joël Guerriau “grabbing a small plastic bag containing something white, in a drawer in his kitchen”. About 20 minutes after taking a sip from a drink the senator had served her, the congresswoman suddenly felt ill.
Sweating and palpitating, she fled towards the National Assembly. On site, her colleagues notified the emergency services who took care of her and hospitalized her. The blood and urine tests carried out proved that the MP had indeed ingested ecstasy without her knowledge.
Arrested on Wednesday at the end of the day, the senator was indicted on Friday after his custody. He is accused of “administration without Sandrine Josso’s knowledge of a substance likely to impair her discernment or control of her actions, in order to commit rape or sexual assault and possession and use of substances classified as narcotics” .
Following his indictment, the parliamentary group Les Indépendants and the Horizons party announced the suspension of Joël Guerriau. He continues to deny the facts through his lawyer and speaks of an “accident”.
A political career started in 2014
Originally from Guérande and a trained dietician, Sandrine Josso began her political career as a municipal councilor in the commune of Herbignac, in Loire-Atlantique, in 2014, under the centrist label. After joining La République en Marche in 2017, she ran for the legislative elections in the 7th constituency of Loire-Atlantique, where she managed to be elected, beating LR candidate Franck Louvrier, former communications director of Nicolas Sarkozy.
After sitting under the LREM label for two years, Sandrine Josso left the majority parliamentary group in June 2019 for the Libertés et Territoires group. She explained that she “no longer found the initial meaning” of her commitment and had the feeling of “losing her energy” within LREM.
She finally joined the MoDem group in September 2020, under whose colors she was re-elected in June 2022 for a second term as deputy, with 57.1% of the votes in the second round against the Nupes candidate, Véronique Mahé.
An MP now involved in equality issues
If she remains unknown to the general public, the MP is particularly involved in ecological issues. She notably submitted a report on environmental health to the former Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, in February 2021.
His personal experience has also sometimes been at the heart of his commitments. For example, she reported on pediatric cancers, a particularly sensitive subject for Sandrine Josso, since her daughter was affected in 2012 by leukemia, from which she has since been in remission.
Since his re-election, his action at the Palais-Bourbon has focused more on gender equality. In particular, in January she filed a Law proposition aimed at promoting psychological support for women who have suffered miscarriage.
In May, she finally presented with her Renaissance colleague Céline Calvez a report on “budgeting integrating equality” between men and women to the parliamentary delegation for women’s rights and equal opportunities between men and women. women, then to the then Minister of Equality between Women and Men, Isabelle Rome.
Sentenced to one year of ineligibility
However, she came into contact with the law twice: the first time in March 2020 as part of an investigation for “breach of trust”. A former colleague accuses him of not having repaid money lent to her in 2018. The case has still not been resolved on the merits.
Sandrine Josso was also singled out for not having transmitted her campaign accounts for the 2020 municipal elections within the allotted time. Candidate in La Baule, she was eliminated in the first round with just over 4% of the votes. By a judgment of January 28, 2021, the MP was sentenced to one year of ineligibility by the administrative court of Nantes.
He considered that the fault was “totally attributable to the candidate”, but did not relate to a “will to commit fraud or a particularly serious breach”. She did not appeal the decision, specified West France.
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