The Tribunal ordered an additional information on the psychological harm suffered by Sophie Conrad, drugged on his knowledge by the ex-Director of the Montaigne Institute, as well as a psychiatric expertise of the accused.
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Laurent Bigorgne, 47, former director of the Montaigne Institute, will finally appear on November 10th in the Paris Correctional Court to have drugged one of his collaborators and former sister-in-law, Sophie Conrad, 40 years old , by finding his knowledge of MDMA crystals (ecstasy) in his champagne cup, during an evening at his home on February 22. At the hearing on Thursday, March 10, in the absence of the accused, hospitalized, the Tribunal decided to refer the case, by ordering an additional information on two points: a medical expertise The victim’s psychological to determine his total labor inability (ITT) and psychiatric expertise of Laurent Bigorgne, entrusted to the Roland Children’s psychiatrist. The Tribunal dismounted the civil party of all its other requests aimed at obtaining the opening of judicial information.
The hearing, which lasted less than an hour, was not without interest. On the side of the accused, first. Laurent Bigorgne dismissed from his defense M e Jean Veil, the first council he had solicited, which is also the friend and the lawyer of Olivier Duhamel, the former director of the Foundation National Political Science accused of rape and incest by Camille Kouchner in Familia Grande (Threshold, 2021). A proximity that the former Director of the Montaigne Institute has long measured how cumbersome it was. It is now defended by M e Sébastien Schapira, a strong and discreet penalist, and by him alone.
A “parcel and carencée” survey for the civil party
The accused, who recognizes the facts and confessed to himself a regular cocaine consumer, incurs a sentence of three years imprisonment for “administering of harmful substance” if the ITT of its victim is less than or equal at eight days, and five years old if it superior. On the other hand, he tried to obtain a sexual relationship with his associate.
On the side of the civil party next. In the investigators, Sophie Conrad explained that there were no one, that night, “physical contacts”. Asked about the attitude of Laurent Bigorgne towards him in the past, she had mentioned several “alerts” – especially SMS to the sexual allusions supported, but she indicated: “I always thought the situation under control.” His position s is publicly hardened since. In the conclusions he transmitted to the press, his lawyer, M e Aié Alimi, denounces a “parcel and carncied” investigation and explicitly involves the parquet of Paris for having, according to him, “deliberately dismissed certain criminal qualifications such as the attempt of rape and administration to a person, without the knowledge, of a substance likely to alter the discernment or the control of its acts in order to commit a rape or a sexual assault for the purpose of protecting a political person and, thereby the Montaigne Institute. “
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