According to “Liberation”, judicial information for “rape” was opened on the 12th of July, after a young soldier filed a handrail against another soldier, which she accuses sexual violence.
Le Monde with AFP
After charges of a soldier of the Elysee against another soldier, a judicial information for “rape” was opened on 12 July, learned the France-Press agency (AFP) the same day, of Judicial Source, Partially confirming information from release . The latter was placed under the intermediate status of witness assisted.
According to this source, “the investigations are still in progress”, and the military implicated “was placed”, after his examination before the investigating judge, “under the status of witness assisted” , a status less incriminating than that of indicted.
In his article revealing the case, liberation reports that the facts would have occurred in premises of the particular staff of the Elysee. The case dates back to the July 1, in the margins of a start of three collaborators, and well after the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, who made a speech at the beginning of the evening, was gone.
The Elysee does not comment
“A young soldier, who previously witnessed the starting pot, said to have seen sexual violence by a man, as military,” and “non-commissioned”. “The two soldiers are assigned to the particular staff, work together on a daily basis and know each other”, according to the daily. The military would have tabled “in the hours following” a handrail at the 5-SUP “5 / SUP> arrondissement, adds release.
The Elysée has made known “never” comment “the judicial affairs in progress”, while stating that “as soon as the facts have been brought to the knowledge of the authorities, measures have been taken immediately: listening, support and accompaniment of the victim, immediate assignment, far from the Elysee, the person offending “. The Ministry of Armies did not wish to comment immediately.