It will be judged before the Criminal Court of Paris, after a complaint lodged against him by one of his collaborators who declares to have been addicted to his knowledge at a private party.
Le Monde with AFP
Laurent Bigorgne, who runs the Montaigne Institute, awarded, on Sunday, February 27, his resignation which “was accepted by the members of the Steering Committee during an exceptional meeting”, according to a release of this Think-Tank Liberal .
m. Bigorgne, who has been running the Institute since 2011, is suspected of having drugged without a collaborator at an evening, and will be judged before the Paris Correctional Court. The organization adds to “all implementation to accompany its employees during this period by providing them with a psychological cell” and decided to “entrust a third party the conduct of an internal investigation, particularly on the work environment. within the institute “.
The Steering Committee of the Montaigne Institute, Camille Godeau, Deputy Director, as well as the Executive Committee, ensure the continuity of its activities under the supervision of its President, Henri de Castries and his two Vice-Presidents, Jean -Dominic Senard and David Azéma, according to the press release.
At the end of his custody begun on Friday, Mr. Bigorgne was the subject of a summary summary on March 10th in court for “harmful substance administration followed by disability. Not eight days by a person acting under the obvious footprint of narcotics “.
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Invited at the home of Laurent Bigorgne, one of his collaborators, over 40 years, filed a complaint in the night of Tuesday in Wednesday, after an early evening past in his company.
According to The Parisian , she would have told the police suddenly felt bad after Having drunk a cup of champagne and went directly to a hospital where he would have been told that she had symptoms of drug taking.
According to a toxicological expertise of the complainant, she was then positive at the MDMA, a synthesis drug of the family of amphetamines also known as “ecstasy”. The MDMA is consumed for the feeling of energy and euphoria it provides and for its disinhibiting effect. It causes the increase in heart rate, palpitations and hot flashes, and lowers vigilance. According to the complainant, Mr. Bigorgne would have taken cocaine.
Created in 2000, the Institut Montaigne is a Liberal-inspired reflection center, which brings together business leaders, senior officials, academics, and regularly conducting studies and reports, notably addressed to the public authorities. .
Laurent Bigorgne, a 47-year-old economist, is part of a committee of 34 senior officials, political figures and the designated economic world at the end of 2017 by the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, to draw the reform of administration.