A woman accuses Mr. Abad of having tried to violate her during a party organized at his home, in Paris, in the first half of 2010. The latter denounced the “carefully chosen calendar of these publications”.
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The Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad, already implicated for sexual violence, is targeted by new accusations from a woman who says he has undergone an attempted rape in 2010, according to her story published Tuesday, June 14 By Mediapart .
m. Abad, who is seeking a new mandate as a deputy on Sunday in the Ain, denounced the “carefully chosen calendar of these publications” and the “bias” of the Mediapart investigation, which, according to him, has a “political” motivation. “As for the reported allegations, they revolt me and I categorically refute them,” added Mr. Abad.
“Laëtitia” (assumed first name), an “centrist elected representative”, accuses Mr. Abad of having tried to rape her during a party organized at his home, in Paris, in the first half of 2010. Without explicitly evoking A complaint, his lawyer, M e Raphaële Bialkiewicz, told Mediapart that she proceeded “to harvest and withdrawal of elements, in order to bring all the useful consequences”. “Today, I can’t be silent,” Laëtitia told Mediapart. “If I speak, it is for it to stop, that he cannot start again,” she added.
“I was afraid, I was amazed”
During the facts she relates, she was president of the youth movement of the new center, of which Mr. Abad, European deputy, was the national president. On the evening of the facts, she says, Damien Abad “offered her a drink” at the bottom of which she saw “something”: suspicious, she went to spit out her sip in the toilet.
Also according to his story, Mr. Abad was waiting for him behind the door and everything went “very quickly”: the MEP would have “pushed her in a room opposite” then tried to force her to fellatio. “I was afraid, I was amazed. I was debated, I hit it in my stomach,” she says.
“Laëtitia” says that he was finally able to “get rid of” his alleged attacker and get out of the room thanks to the emergence of a guest. The facts reported by this woman are “supported by the testimonies of eight people, to whom she confided or who may have witnessed certain elements of her story”, and which Mediapart claims to have contacted.
The government arrested
These accusations arise after those published by online media on May 21 , the day after the appointment of Mr. Abad as Minister of Solidarity, autonomy And people with disabilities: two women, cited by Mediapart, accused the new minister of having raped them in 2010 and 2011.
According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, one of them – who confirmed his story to AFP – filed a complaint twice, but these two complaints were classified without follow -up in 2012, then in 2017, D ‘First for “deficiency of the complainant”, then “lack of sufficiently characterized offense”.
As for the other accuser, the prosecution said on May 25 that he did not open a preliminary investigation “as it is” on the facts it denounces, for lack of element allowing the ‘identify. His testimony was indeed transmitted to justice in a form anonymized by the observatory of gender -based and sexual violence in politics.
“Damien Abad is it worthy to exercise his functions and work for the general interest?” Asked this association on Tuesday after the new revelations of Mediapart, adding that “an absence of reaction does not could, as it stand, be interpreted only as a validation by the government of this type of violent behavior towards women “.