His appeal before the Supreme Court was dismissed. The former UMP minister will be tried for rape and sexual assault of two former employees of its common Draveil.
Four years after the first charges, former UMP minister Georges Tron and his accomplice, Brigitte Gruel, will finally be tried for rape and sexual assault.
This is the latest in a series of legal twists. It all began in May 2011, when two former employees of the Town Hall of Draveil in Essonne accuse Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel, presented as his mistress, rape and sexual assault. Both women describe attacks conducted under cover of reflexology, the art of therapeutic massage of the feet, imposed regularly between 2007 and 2010.
Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel had been indicted in June 2011 for rape and sexual assault in a meeting. They had first received a dismissal in December 2013 at the end of the investigation. The testimony of the young women did not, then, to “sufficiently characterize offenses” had estimated the investigating judges in charge of the case.
The complainants had appealed, and there bombshell: the Paris Court of Appeal gives them due on 15 December and decided to refer the politician before the assizes. The department also added that if the evidence of the complainants appeared approximate, is that they had been pressured.
But the former Secretary of State for Public Service Nicolas Sarkozy in cassation. The former minister, calling himself a follower of reflexology, acknowledged during the investigation fondling the feet of the complainants, while defending of having relationships or even sexual intentions. The public prosecutor had requested the annulment of his trial in the assizes.
During the trial at the Assizes, “civil parties will be there, in case the Advocate General is not sufficiently insisting that shed light on the crimes that are now” charged to Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel, Me Spinosi said.
“It’s a huge disappointment,” said one of the lawyers of Brigitte Gruel, Mr. Emmanuel Piwnica. “You can imagine the disappointment that is felt at the thought of having to appear before a criminal court when we know that the acts for which it is pursued have not been committed, were not able to be committed and are, in reality mere fable, “he said. “It is unfortunate to have to appear before a criminal court when we have done nothing,” said the lawyer.
“An innocent man has nothing to fear from a reference to the foundation,” said lawyer Georges Tron to BFM TV.
Re-elected Sunday after the second round of the departmental elections in his canton of Draveil, Georges Tron finally gave up running for president of the County Council of Essonne, won Thursday by the UMP mayor of Montegron François Durovray, close to Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.
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