Accused of rape, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin said he was convinced this Thursday on France 2 that he would
"not be indicted"
, denouncing
"slander"
, comparable to
"the Baudis affair"
.
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"I will not be indicted in this case,"
said the Minister of the Interior, questioned on the set of "You have the floor" before discussing with Marine Le Pen.
“There have been three successive court decisions,
” he added.
"I see that after four years, this slander does not stop," he said again.
"The Baudis affair was not enough for you?"
, he launched to journalist Thomas Sotto, in reference to the late Dominique Baudis, former mayor of Toulouse, falsely implicated in the early 2000s in a matter of morals.
"I have no lessons to receive and, moreover, I wish you never to be slandered, neither you nor your family,"
said Gerald Darmanin.
Closed twice
The Home Secretary is accused by Sophie Patterson-Spatz of rape, sexual harassment and breach of trust.
The investigation had been closed on two occasions between 2017 and 2018. The complainant relaunched her complaint and, after two years of procedural battle, another investigating judge has been in charge of the investigations since last summer.
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