A 20-year-old woman at the time of the facts, had filed a handrail at the police station of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, at the end of April, the day after his meeting with Mr. Branco.
Le Monde with AFP
The lawyer Juan Branco was indicted for “rape” by a Parisian investigating judge, according to Information from the point confirmed to The France-Presse agency (AFP), Tuesday, November 24. “He was placed under judicial review,” said a judicial source at AFP.
A 20-year-old woman at the time of the facts, had filed a handrail at the Commissioner of 14 e Arrondissement of Paris on April 29, after meeting Mr. Branco following exchanges on the Instagram network. His statements had “incited the Paris prosecutor’s office to entrust an investigation for rape facts at the DPJ [Regional Police Directorate],” had reported the Parisian
Placed in custody for a month later, the lawyer had mentioned a consented relationship. The lawyer of Mr. Branco, Yassine Bouzrou, had then denounced “unfounded” “charges” and a “abuse (…) abusive”, requesting the “classification without immediate future “From this survey. According to him, the complainant “says herself that there has been no violence, nor threat, nor manifestation of his opposition to penetration”, “indicates having fallen on his own” and is “remained sleeping with Juan Branco after sexual relationship “.
The lawyer denies any constrained relationship
In a long Facebook post, Mr. Branco had denied any constrained relationship with the young woman. After a walk in Paris, they would have returned to Mr. Branco’s home, depending on the version of it, and then looked at a movie before having a sexual relationship. The next morning, the young woman would have “kissed” before leaving, still insured the lawyer. She would have returned in the evening “cold and troubled”, announcing that she had tabled a “handrail” on the councils of two friends.
After the revelation of the charges, the lawyer and essayist had insured, in a message to the press, that the complainant intended “withdraw” his current hand at the earliest. In this handrail, according to the point, the young woman had been able to have taken an opiate, from the lamina, with Mr. Branco. He had confirmed in the emission “Do not touch my post” (C8), comparing this drug to doliprane.
m. Branco is notably known for a bookstore success, the Anti-Emmanuel Macron Dusk pamphlet, published online at the end of 2018, then published by the editions to the Devil Vauvert and Massot in 2019. He became the lawyer of the artist Russian Piotr Pavlennski in the case of broadcast, in 2020, of the sexual video of Benjamin Griveaux, then spokesperson of the government and candidate at the Paris town hall.
At the end of January, Mr. Branco was placed under the status of witness attended in this survey. It is also subject to disciplinary prosecution of the Council of the College of Lawyers in the GRIVEAUX file.