The academic, who judges the accusations “unfounded” according to his lawyer, was placed under judicial supervision.
Le Monde with afp
The historian François Durpaire, consultant on BFM-TV, was indicted Thursday 1 er for rape after the complaint filed by an ex-partner, said on Sunday September 4 Parquet of Paris, confirming information from Parisian .
The academic, who judges the accusations “unfounded” according to his lawyer, was placed under judicial supervision. According to a source close to the file, which confirmed the information of the Parisian, the facts denounced by the complainant, who had a brief relationship with Mr. Durpaire, would have taken place in May 2011. She claims to have been raped when she came Ask him for explanations, writes the daily.
“Financial transaction”
In 2020, the two former lovers would have seen each other and would have “agreed on a financial transaction” of 60,000 euros but the woman would have been delighted and would then have filed a complaint, continues the newspaper.
Contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP), Mr. Durpaire’s lawyer, Dorothée Bisaccia-Bernstein, estimated that the opening of this judicial information offered his client “the opportunity to express themselves contradictory in the face of these accusations “, and argued that the investigating judges had considered” that he was sufficiently worthy of confidence to impose a fairly light judicial control to him “.
“It is normal and legitimate that the words of women be heard, but it is as legitimate as an instruction to be opened to allow the manifestation of the truth,” she added.