Tall, very erect, firmly planted on his legs apart, his voice does not tremble when he launches at the Paris Assize Court, which has the power to send him to prison for many years:
"I hope to be the clearest, the most precise to confirm with all my strength that I have never had sexual relations, neither consented nor in a constrained form, with Virginie Ettel and Éva Loubrieu ”
.
For Georges Tron, the stake of this Friday is immense.
The former Secretary of State for the Civil Service has a day to convince judges and jurors that
"everything is invented"
in the charges of "rape" and "sexual assault" brought against him by two plaintiffs.
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Since 2011, the year of their complaint, Virginie Ettel and Éva Loubrieu have described scenes of imposed triolism involving the mayor of Draveil (Essonne) and Brigitte Gruel, his former deputy for Culture.
Paying homage to his co-accused, whom he describes as
“rigorous, straightforward, loyal, trustworthy”
, Georges Tron claims that he has had
“no emotional relationship, no sexual relationship” with her
.
If he acknowledges having exercised plantar reflexology on her, he assures us that this
assumed
“passion”
has for him
“no sexual vocation”
, neither with Brigitte Gruel, nor with the other people on whom he practiced it.
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The chosen one concedes only caresses on the chest of a collaborator and a long extra-marital relationship with Sylvie D., flight attendant and now deputy mayor of Draveil.
In first instance, in November 2018, the Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis, for its part, considered that there was at the town hall a
"general hyper sexualized climate between Georges Tron and several of his collaborators"
.
But all the same acquitted Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel of the accusations of “rape” and “sexual assault” which weighed on them, considering that
“the proof of a situation of constraint had never been reported”
.
Not "a perfect man"
Georges Tron, who could in the past be qualified as
“arrogant”
, takes care this Friday not to give this impression to the court, endeavoring on the contrary to describe
“the maelstrom”
in which he was plunged.
"I would be careful not to say that I want to give the image of a perfect man.
I am not, and I am perfectly aware of the weaknesses and weaknesses that may have been exposed ”
, but
“ I respect women ”
, he declares.
Confident to have found
“extremely painful to hear all his personal, sentimental, sexual life unpacked
” during these three weeks of hearing, he qualifies certain testimonies of
“extraordinarily false”
.
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In the first place of which obviously appear, according to him, the declarations of Virginie Ettel and Éva Loubrieu.
The first denounces two scenes of forced threesome which would have occurred in a restaurant on November 19, 2009 and at Brigitte Gruel's home on January 4, 2010.
"It never existed"
, denies the accused.
Without being able to give precise dates, the second evokes about ten sexual relations, at the beginning agreed and only with Georges Tron, then forced and three with the mayor and his deputy.
“Never, never, never.
[...] Pure lie ”
, continues the sixty-year-old.
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Throughout this long day of hearing, emotion, annoyance and anger sometimes take over in Georges Tron.
Especially when the questions are insistent or when he is put in difficulty - by the green pocket containing documents on the complainants, by the eavesdropping of his ex-lover ... In such moments, the language of this good man family is less punished.
"Cornecul"
,
"since Saint-Glinglin"
,
"bullshit"
, he launches at the bar, before releasing a bitter sentence which finally sums up his feeling quite well at the end of these ten
"horrible"
years
of procedure:
"The thing that touches me the most is that I got screwed".