The lawyer is fuming.
"For there to be rape, there must be any act of sexual penetration, of any kind [...] by violence, coercion, threat or surprise."
Fanny Colin insists: “It was a consensual act, between adults.
There was no violence, no threats, no constraints or surprises!
My client told me over and over again:
I never raped anyone, ever. ”
This Friday, Maxime Cochard, 36, councilor of Paris, communist, elected from the 14th century, was preparing the response via his lawyer.
This Thursday, the elected official had been implicated and suspected of rape.
His accuser, Guillaume, a 20-year-old student, former lover, threw a message on Twitter which, in the context of the cases of sexual violence and the hashtag #MeTooGay, bombed the Communist Party and the -of the.
His delegations to the town hall of the 14th century were withdrawn from him
“After more than two years, without knowing how to put words to what happened to me, I realize that I was raped by Maxime Cochard, counselor of Paris and his companion […] in October 2018 when I 'was only 18 and particularly vulnerable. "
Thursday, the PCF asked Maxime Cochard to withdraw from the party and the Council of Paris.
This Friday, it was Carine Petit, the mayor (Generation s) of the 14th century who, in turn, withdrew her delegations.
Maxime Cochard did not wait for these decisions to initiate, as soon as it appeared, an action for defamation.
"There was no violence, threats or constraints," insists Fanny Colin, lawyer for Maxime Cochard.LP / Céline Carez
This Friday, Me Fanny Colin detailed this three-way relationship started two years ago with friends dinners, picnics on the banks of the Seine, PCF meetings, immortalized by joyful photos.
The lawyer showed the dark side of this file, and of the messages that we were able to consult.
In July, Guillaume wishes Maxime a happy birthday.
Last December, he asked for an internship "from the adviser of Paris" at the town hall of Paris.
Maxime Cochard does not answer it.
At the beginning of the month, Guillaume wishes him a happy new year.
Twenty days later, the tweet fell.
Guillaume evokes "a hold, a moral ascendancy"
This Friday evening, Guillaume, reached by phone, said he "was considering filing a complaint".
The trio had seen "ten times" at Maxime and he specified that, in the sexual relations there had been "no violence, no threat, no constraint but surprise".
The young man, however, evokes "a hold, a moral ascendancy.
I was lost, alone, in a family breakdown.
I did not have a base in Paris.
I was discovering my homosexuality.
I was just a simple activist.
I admired them ”.
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This Friday evening, Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, advisor (EELV) of Paris at the heart of the sexual violence case involving Christophe Girard, repeated: "I believe the victim, I support her and I offered my help."
Behind the scenes, at the Town Hall, another elected official, on condition of anonymity, said: “I do not think these are fabrications.
There have been alerts before, rumors that have circulated.
This new case of sexual violence brings us back to the crucial question: what is consent? ”