Former Secretary of State in charge of primary education was the subject of an administrative inquiry in January and left office in March.
By (with AFP)
A preliminary investigation opened after his departure. After accusations of collaborators and a report of the administration of justice, the former Secretary of State of the Government Castex, Nathalie Elimas, is under investigation for “moral harassment” opened on Thursday, learned Agence France- Presse (AFP) Friday, March 18. The applicant said he was “serene”: “I have no concerns, I’m even more happy now that there is this survey so people who testified for the prosecution, some of which were still members of my cabinet will testify to face unmasked. “
M me Elimas responsible for priority education until he left the government in early March, was the subject of an administrative investigation by the General Inspectorate of Higher Education and research (IGESR) which led to a report to justice received on 10 March by the Paris prosecutor.
report “dependent”
The investigation was assigned to the Brigade of fighting crime against the person. Before opening it, prosecutors in Paris had to first determine whether the charges against the former Secretary of State were detached from its function or not. In the second case, the file would have been sent to the Court of Justice of the Republic, only court empowered to prosecute and try ministers for offenses committed in the exercise of their functions. “I myself had said that the prosecutor was to be seized so that I can defend myself from these very serious charges in court,” said the former secretary of state, aged 48.
Enter the government in July 2020 after being elected in 2017 Modem MP (presidential majority) of Val-d’Oise, Nathalie Elimas Friday denounced a report IGESR “totally dependent” and felt that n had ignored exculpatory evidence it had produced during two hearings and “seventy-five pages of observations, chronology of events, comments, elements and hardware parts.”
The AFP revealed in mid-January that M me Elimas was the subject of an administrative investigation of IGESR after internal reports about “dysfunction” in his cabinet on “labor relations”. Several sources have reported that the Secretary of State was seen accuse the facts of “harassment” or even “abuse” of employees. All have preferred anonymity. “I am confident that if our government considers it necessary to go to the criminal law is that there are elements,” said his side responded Friday, a person who worked in the office of M me Elimas and having accused of “harassment”.
testimonies “consistent” and “serious”
At least three sources had also said that employment in the cabinet of a very close to M me Elimas, described by one of these sources as “untouchable”, would be the one component of this administrative investigation. M me Elimas had called two days later “suffered great violence to attack.”
In mid-February, an internal preliminary report was presented to Jean Castex. According to two sources interviewed by AFP, testimony to M me Elimas were “consistent”, “severe” and “oppressive.” The Elysee had announced March 5 that she was leaving the government and a week later, M me Elimas announced it had filed a complaint for “false accusation”.
“Given the growing importance of this matter, I decided to defend myself and take a first step in filing a complaint for false accusation,” she had said. “For several weeks I have sullied and slandered in the media who take accusations seriously undermine my honor and my dignity,” she had justified.
Since 2017, many current and former members of governments of the majority of Emmanuel Macron has been in trouble with the law.
Some of the procedures still pending: the keeper, Eric Dupond-Moretti, the interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, the Minister of Overseas Sebastien Lecornu, or the Secretary of State for public Service, Olivier Dussopt.