The Minister of the Interior is accused of rape, sexual harassment and abuse of confidence by Sophie Spatz-Patterson, a former UMP activist, for facts dating back to 2009.
Le Monde with AFP
The parquet of Paris required Wednesday a non-place for the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, accused of rape since 2017, he said Thursday, January 13 at the France-Presse Agence (AFP) , confirming information from BFM-TV.
“We take note of this disquisition of non-place and wait for the final decision of the magistrate instructor,” said Mathias Chichortish and Pierre-Olivier on, Minister’s lawyers in this highly sensitive issue and who has already been the subject long procedural unravels.
The minister is accused of rape, sexual harassment and abuse by Sophie Spatz-Patterson, a former UMP activist, for facts dating back to 2009.
Gérald Darmanin was placed on 14 December by the investigating judge under witness status for these facts. On February 12, he had delivered his version of the facts to the investigators. That of a young man of 26, “embarrassed”, “impressed”, against a ten-year-old woman his eldest “to the strong personality”, as he told him during his hearing revealed by Mediapart and whose Le Monde has become aware. He had not denied the sexual relationship or chronology of this evening from March 2009. But it was the complainant who, according to him, would have been entrepreneurial, impregnant it was consenting.