The President LFI of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly is weakened by the opening of a preliminary investigation for “sexual harassment”.
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The Eric Coquerel affair is now in the hands of justice. The deputy of rebellious France (LFI), president of the finance committee of the National Assembly, is targeted by a preliminary investigation opened on July 12 by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “sexual assault and harassment”. This legal proceedings follows a complaint filed with the police station of Vanves (Hauts-de-Seine), on July 4, by Sophie Tissier for acts of “sexual harassment”, and “gestures that can be a sexual assault “. The complainant is a former left -wing activist (PG) who would have got to know Eric Coquerel on August 23, 2014, during the PG summer university in Grenoble.
In his complaint, M tissier describes “displaced tactile gestures”, “sticky hands” on “parts of the body inappropriate for a dance”. She indicates that “he touched the buttocks on several occasions.” She accuses Mr. Coquerel of having “taken by the size and the hips with insistence” in a nightclub and of having offered him, by SMS, “D ‘Go with him to his hotel. “
“My client spoke about it within the PG, specifies Etienne Lesage, the lawyer for M me tissier, contacted by Le Monde. She was not listened to, at the era. She sent emails and warned a journalist. But that did not interest at the time. As with all the people who experienced this kind of event, the slightest news element rekindled the memory, the Trauma. The promotion of Mr. Coquerel to the National Assembly thus rekindled the pain of my client. “
” Complete solidarity with him “
“Eric Coquerel is available to investigators and will seize, if necessary, the opportunity to finally be confronted with a precise accusation to be able to challenge the facts allegedly reproached,” reacted Wednesday evening to the AFP, Mr. Coquerel’s lawyer, M e Ronen. To ensure his defense, the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis did not draw from the half-dozen lawyers who regularly assist LFI. He chose Maître Ronen who was the council of Salah Abdeslam during the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015. A strategy which surprises until some rebellious. Whatever happens, his political situation is weakened, his re -election at the head of the strategic finance committee, within a year, promises to be compromised.
Since the opening of the preliminary investigation, his party remains, for the moment, silent, apart from a tweet by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Wednesday July 13: “Mesquine replies against Eric Coquerel intended to dirty him without cause. Complete. Solidarity with him. “His lieutenants, mutic, consult themselves to decide which line of collective expression to adopt. Within the new social and ecological popular union (Nuts), “we discuss to adopt the right position, intervenes Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party. The principle is respect for the words of women while waiting for justice to justice Pass. In the case Coquerel the facts attributed to him are not comparable to the supposed rapes of Abad. What must be the attitude for a hand on the hips? “
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