A member of the Superior Council of the Judiciary was indicted in May for “sexual assault” in the Paris metro and placed under judicial control, AFP learned Wednesday from a judicial source.
Le Parisien
affirms that four women were victims of sexual assault between 2018 and 2020 by a man presenting each time the
“same modus operandi”
and in the
“same sector”
of Paris.
The man implicated for these facts is Jean Cabannes, officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor and of the National Order of Merit.
He holds a doctorate in law and has long held senior positions in the Senate.
Aged 65, he was a member from 2019 of the Superior Council of the Judiciary but no longer appears on the website of the institution, which has more than thirty advisers.
His lawyer, Me Olivier Baratelli, considered that this indictment was
“the questioning of honesty itself”
.
Jean Cabannes
“proclaims his innocence and sees this questioning as an infamy.
The presumption of innocence, so often flouted, still prevails and always ”
, according to his advice.
If the President of the Republic is in France
"the guarantor of the independence of the judicial authority"
, the Superior Council of the Judiciary, an independent body,
"assists" him
, giving opinions on all the appointments of magistrates. .
