The 64-year-old Parisian penalist is pursued for “rape per person with authority”, Thursday, December 9 as a result of the complaint of a trainee at his office.
After the disciplinary sanction, the criminal proceedings. At the end of 2019, the lawyer Alex Ursulet had been scrutinized by the disciplinary council of the Paris Bar – the penalist contests this decision and the Court of Appeal of Paris will decide on the subject on January 20, 2022. Thursday, December 9, M E Ursulet, 64 years, was indicted for “rape per person having authority”, learned Le Monde, confirming Mediapart information.
The judicial troubles of the one who was the guy guy georges and the former minister and Mayor of Grenoble Alain Carignon dates back to September 25, 2019. That day, a young lawyer complains against the penalist, She denounces facts of rape and sexual harassment.
According to the complainant’s narrative, the facts date from January 30, 2018, while it was in internship at M e Ursulet. The penalist would have, during a lunch at the restaurant, questioned his sexual practices, “she says. Before, on their return to the lawyer’s cabinet, to kiss him, lift him his dress, lower his panties and penetrate her with your fingers several times. Unable to return to work the next day, the young woman resigns by e-mail. M e Ursulet has always challenged these accusations.
Heard in custody in June 2020, the lawyer had emerged under the status of witness assisted. He ensures that he wanted to put an end to the internship agreement of the young woman, who would have liked to revenge. Having appealed its radiation, it still exerts.
“Handling, domination, harassment”
The disciplinary council of the Paris Bar, after more than seven months of investigation in 2019, had not been convinced by the arguments of M e Uruslet, noting that “all its attempts of explanations were denied by both the auditioned witnesses, even when they were discharged (…), only by the documents paid to the file. “.
In his judgment of December 31, 2019, the proceeding felt that the lawyer, by the other hand, author of doubtful SMS sent to the young woman, had missed the principles of his profession and “adopted inappropriate behavior vis-à-vis of a trainee, which has manifested itself in manipulation, a domination, a harassment, for the purpose of carrying out a sufficiently serious sexual actions in order not to be revealed by Mr. Alex Ursulet but masked by inconsistent remarks and MENSONGERS “.
Contact by Le Monde, M E THIBAULT LAFORCADE, the complainant’s defender, sees in this indicating “the logically expected suite in this file”. “Nothing justifies this indicated”, says M e Marie Burguburu, Council of the penalist, cited by Mediapart. “The advantage, she adds, it is that she gives the defense of Alex Ursulet rights she did not have before the status of witness assisted.”