Robert Bartoletti, appointed to represent the Prosecution at the trial of the man judged for “rape by surprise”, in 2008, had the subject of a demotion by the Superior Council of the Judiciary for having worn Its prosecutor functions in order to provoke an intimate relationship with a litigator.
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“You could make love with any woman? It’s important, the physical criterion, no?” “How many women would want to make love with you seeing you? me, I have my little idea: close to zero. “” Have you enjoyed? Have they enjoyed? “These words were held, Thursday, October 28, by the lawyer General Robert Bartoletti at the trial of Jack S., judged for “rape by surprise” in the criminal court of Montpellier.
In his indictment pronounced the next day against this septuagenarian who, a few years earlier, was passing for a 38-year-old play-boy on the sites of dating, Mr. Bartoletti had denounced “a particularly cynical predator” who “has Taken the psychological ascendancy over his victims, managed to dominate them, to submit them “. “We are, in this case, in the phenomenon of the right-of-way. It has been perfectly conceded its type of prey, particularly fragile women,” the Prosecution representative had added before requiring twelve years of criminal imprisonment against “This guy who, at the end of six years of procedure, is still right in his boots”. Jack S. was sentenced, Friday, October 29, to eight years’ imprisonment.
Discovering these remarks and the name of the one who has kept them, several magistrates have experienced a deep discomfort. Robert Bartoletti is not a stranger for the Chancery. On November 21, 2008, when he served as the Prosecutor of the Republic in Chambéry, he was disciplinary proceedings before the Higher Council of the Judiciary (CSM) for “breach of the duty of impartiality” , “Failure to duty of delicacy with regard to justice” and “breach of the duty of probity”. Like all decisions rendered in disciplinary matters, this – anonymous – is published on the CSM website under number P0 60.
“Failure to dignity”
The facts that have been reproached to him are as follows. In its functions of Prosecutor in Chambéry, Robert Bartoletti is seized of criminal proceedings following neighborhood disorders. He decides to hire a mediation between the parties. After convening, alone, M me X., he reconfills it for a second interview at the end of which he invites him to lunch. An intimate relationship is tied up with each other. Becoming the lover of this woman, Mr. Bartoletti continues to take care of the procedure in which she is questioned and pronounces a classification without a suite. Heard during the disciplinary investigation, Ms. X. said that, from their first interview, the Prosecutor “had behaved familiarly so that she understood that she was interested.”
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