After the deposit by two ex-collaborators of two complaints, on July 1, the Nanterre prosecution confirmed to the “world” having opened, Monday, a preliminary investigation targeting the mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, 81.
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A preliminary survey was opened on Monday, July 4, after the filing of two complaints for “sexual assault”, “sexual harassment” and “moral harassment”, by the Nanterre prosecution against André Santini, the mayor (union of Democrats and self-employed, UDI) of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and vice-president of Greater Paris, learned Le Monde from a judicial source. It was entrusted to the delinquency repression brigade against the person.
The two complaints, revealed by Le Monde, were filed on the 1
The two complainants were common to have been dismissed by the mayor, in mid-May, officially for “rupture of the bonds of trust necessary for [their] collaboration”. In fact, Mr. Santini reproached them for a parliament for Covid-19, accusing them, on May 19, of having “discredited the cabinet” and of having caught the virus during a “orgy” .
Marc, ex-Huissier (2011-2020) and former chief of staff of the mayor (2020-2022), and Pierre (the first names were changed), former bailiff (2020-2022) of Mr. Santini, assured In the world to have undergone “touching”, mainly on the bottom of the buttocks and the thigh. “It has happened hundreds of times that he caresses me,” said Marc. I spent more than ten years being hit the thigh. “
The ex-chief of staff of the mayor says that Mr. Santini, in the summer of 2021, “literally threw himself on him in an elevator. “A sexual assault” which constitutes in his eyes “a trigger”. “I was paralyzed, glued to him. He started to put a hand in his back, and one hand on his stomach, then started to rub it. His face was about 10 cm from mine. > E floor, I pushed it back, and first got out of the elevator, quickly walking to my office. “
” Culture of impunity ”
Pierre reveals that it was in April 2022, two weeks before his eviction, that “it went into a spin”. That day, according to his story, André Santini “tried to kiss” twice and “to approach [l] a hand of [s] on between”.
Marc and Pierre say they have taken care of whole sections of the personal life of the councilor. Beyond the drafting of his speeches, the management of his public and private correspondence and his press review, they, according to their story, had to feed the fish in Mr. Santini’s aquarium; Pick up your pen on the ground; Go for your medication at the pharmacy, hand prescription; Fill his pill in daily; go to the butcher’s shop; List its many income and pensions; Clean your cigars and your collection of coins at your home; Butter his sandwiches and order the bottle of champagne consumed by the former deputy of Hauts-de-Seine (1988-2017) “every midday at the expense of the municipality”, according to Pierre.
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