He was found guilty of having drugged, without his knowledge, the one who was also his collaborator. She had filed a complaint in February.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
Laurent Bigorgne, the former director of the Montaigne Institute, a liberal think tank, was sentenced Thursday December 8 to twelve months suspended and 2,000 euros fine, for having drugged without his knowledge her former sister-in-law and collaborator during an evening in February.
The criminal court considered that Laurent Bigorgne, a figure of power of power, had administered this drug “in order to commit rape or sexual assault on him, thus requalifying the facts.
The sentence pronounced is below the requisitions of the prosecution, which had requested on November 10, eighteen months of suspended imprisonment and an obligation of care, without retaining sexual intention.
The old all-powerful boss of the liberal think tank was absent from deliberation. His lawyer, M e Sébastien Schapira, announced that he was going “immediately” to call on this “insane, inconsistent decision”.
“It is a recognition of what happened and facts, and a complete recognition,” praised his ex-Belle-Sister Sophie Conrad after the deliberation.
The latter had filed a complaint on the night of February 2 to 3, after a dinner at the home of m. Bigorgne, who was his superior, but also his sister’s ex-husband. After a half-cut of champagne, she had felt symptoms of drug taking and had managed to leave the premises to go to the hospital.
Expertise then revealed that she had absorbed MDMA, a synthetic drug from the family of amphetamines also called ecstasy.
Placed in police custody, Laurent Bigorgne had quickly admitted having taken cocaine that evening and poured MDMA in the glass of M me conrad, but has always contested a sexual intention .
He resigned from the Montaigne Institute on February 27, after eleven years at his head.