The justice dismissed the letter sent to him, in the middle of the legislative campaign, the elected Parisian Rachida Dati (LR) implicating Gilles Le Gendre (LREM) in cases of moral and sexual harassment, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. tuesday.
For the facts qualified as non-denunciation of misdemeanors or crimes and destruction of evidence, his letter received on Tuesday was closed for lack of offense. As for the suspicions of moral and sexual harassment, raised about the former president of the LREM parliamentary group in the National Assembly, the prosecution took no action as it stands, for lack of having received a complaint.
“I am surprised by this classification so quickly and without any hearing… on the eve of a public meeting of Gilles Le Gendre in the presence of Richard Ferrand, one of the witnesses in the file”, reacted on Twitter Rachida Dati. “Investigations have already been opened without complaints, without complainants, or even with complaints previously classified. Did you say weird? she added.
The legislative battle in the upscale neighborhoods of Paris had turned into a legal fistfight with the will of the LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement Rachida Dati to implicate in cases of harassment the LREM deputy Gilles Le Gendre, candidate for his re-election, who accuses in return the aedile of slanderous denunciation.
Rachida Dati’s report was based on an old union statement from parliamentary collaborators and press articles which denounced “the false allegations” of Gilles Le Gendre, the latter having claimed not to have been aware of accusations of sexual harassment aimed at deputies.
Gilles Le Gendre had denied
The former Minister of Justice saw it as a non-denunciation of an offense or even a crime. Rachida Dati, leader of the Parisian right, also echoed remarks by former LREM deputy Joachim Son-Forget, renowned for his fanciful positions, accusing the former head of LREM deputies of being “suspected himself of sexual abuse which (him) was reported directly by the alleged victims”.
“A few days before an election in a constituency of which I am the incumbent and she (Editor’s note: Rachida Dati), one of the mayors, support of one of my competitors, it is easy to imagine the motivations of this self-proclaimed morality witness”, had lambasted in a press release Gilles Le Gendre, candidate for his own succession in the 2nd Parisian constituency where his main competitor is Jean-Pierre Lecoq, LR mayor of the 6th arrondissement. Gilles Le Gendre says he has already been confronted with these rumors internally before coming out cleared.
Until the next legislative elections on June 12 and 19, the presidential majority holds 14 of the 18 Parisian constituencies, only two of which are occupied by LR deputies.