Former Secretary of State Georges Tron spent his first night in prison.
The mayor of Draveil, in Essonne, was sentenced Wednesday evening to five years in prison, three of which are closed.
Two former employees of the town hall of Draveil accused him of sexual assault that occurred between 2007 and 2010, often during scenes of threesome with his assistant to the Culture of the time, Brigitte Gruel.
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Rape and sexual assault: sentenced to three years, Georges Tron spent his first night in prison
At the end of an eleven-hour deliberation, the court The Paris Assize Court of Appeal declared the 63-year-old elected official guilty of rape and sexual assault in a meeting on Virginie Ettel.
However, she acquitted him of similar facts about the other complainant, Eva Loubrieu.
His ex-assistant Brigitte Gruel received a two-year suspended prison sentence.
This decision sounded like a coup de theater in this ten-year-long soap opera, marked by the resignation of Georges Tron from the Fillon government in 2011, a dismissal order reversed and the acquittal of the two defendants at first instance in 2018.
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