Two years after his acquittal, Georges Tron retried for "rapes"

At the start of 2021, Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel have a meeting at the Assizes for the third time.

The first was in December 2017, in Bobigny, in the middle of a #BalanceTonPorc storm.

The trial lasted only four days, before being postponed to a later session.

The second was in October-November 2018, still in Bobigny.

At the end of four weeks of hearing, the mayor of Draveil (Essonne) and his former deputy were acquitted of the charges of "rape" and "sexual assault" in a meeting brought against them by two former employees of the town hall of Draveil, Éva Loubrieu and Virginie Ettel.

The prosecution appealed, which led to the organization of a third trial, scheduled for Tuesday January 19 to Friday February 12 at the courthouse on Île de la Cité.

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The facts denounced by the two complainants would have taken place between 2007 and 2010. They describe sessions of plantar reflexology, a practice of which Georges Tron was a follower, which would have degenerated into unwanted sexual relations.

In its judgment of November 15, 2018, the Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis, however, considered that despite the existence of a

, the evidence of a

has

.

She also considered that Eva Loubrieu and Virginie Ettel were part of a

, for one following her dismissal from the town hall of Draveil, for the other after a change of post in the same. town hall.

Twenty years of imprisonment incurred

The affair broke out in 2011, a few days after the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the New York Sofitel case.

Georges Tron had resigned from his post of Secretary of State for the Public Service, while claiming his innocence.

The one who has been continuously elected at the head of the town hall of Draveil for 25 years still denies the facts, just like his former assistant for Culture, Brigitte Gruel.

explains Me Solange Doumic, who represents him alongside Me Antoine Vey.

The mayor Les Républicains, who faces twenty years of criminal imprisonment, evokes a plot which would have been hatched against him by political opponents.

, supports Me Doumic.

For their part, the lawyers of Virginie Ettel, Me Vincent Ollivier and Me Laure Heinich, did not respond to the

requests

.

As for Éva Loubrieu, she is

that

said her counsel, Me Loïc Guérin.

Stressing that the double acquittal of 2018 was

for his client, the lawyer believes, however, that the recognition of a

and the

by the assize court of Seine-Saint-Denis was

.

According to him, there remains

:

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