Damien Abad accused of rape: “Mr. Macron and Ms. Borne made this choice knowingly”, says Xavier Bertrand
Xavier Bertrand, president of Les Républicains (LR) of the Hauts-de-France region, was this morning at the microphone of Europe 1.
Asked about the two rape charges targeting the former head of LR deputies Damien Abad, who rallied to Emmanuel Macron on Friday after his appointment as Minister of Solidarity, Mr. Bertrand said that“only justice can decide”.
According to him, the executive must have had knowledge of at least one of the charges, the one that was the subject of a complaint in 2017, before being dismissed: “ Who can imagine for a single moment that the President of the Republic, Mr. Macron, and that the Prime Minister, Mrs.me Terminal did not know? »
“When you are appointed minister today, you have both a form of inquiry conducted with the High Authority for the transparency of political life, the taxes which are requested to find out if there is no problem in the tax file, and justice is also questioned to find out if there may have been complaints at one time or another, complaints filed or not “he detailed.
Mr. Bertrand added: “I know Damien Abad, he has necessarily talked about this subject, because the question that is asked is “is there anything that can disrupt government life?” It is obvious that Mr. Macron and Mr.me Borne made this choice knowingly. » “The real question is are the two heads of the executive completely aligned on this file? You have to ask them the question”he added.
“We knew there had been complaints that had been dismissed many years ago”no more, he also said about his political family LR, which Mr. Abad left on Thursday.