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Tron trial: "The heart of this case is the grip", plead the lawyers of the plaintiffs

2021-02-15T20:16:12.390Z


REPORT OF THE HEARING - The mayor of Draveil and his former deputy face twenty years imprisonment for "rape" and "sexual assault" on two former employees of the town hall.


After ten years of proceedings, the appeal trial of Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel at the courthouse on the Île de la Cité entered its final phase on Monday, February 15.

Since 2011, Éva Loubrieu and Virginie Ettel, former employees of the town hall of Draveil, accuse the mayor LR and his former deputy for Culture of “rape” and “sexual assault” which allegedly took place between 2007 and 2010.

“Even if Mr. Tron and Mrs. Gruel deny, they know very well what they did "

, launched the plaintiffs in the same voice when the president of the Assize Court of Paris gave them the floor for the last time, late morning.

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At first instance, in November 2018, the defendants were acquitted by the Seine-Saint-Denis Assize Court.

In its motivation, the court considered that

"proof of a situation of constraint had not been provided"

, but considered that at the town hall of Draveil

"a general hypersexualized climate"

existed

.

A first

important

"step"

, stressed before this second trial the counsel of Eva Loubrieu, Me Loïc Guérin, hoping that the Assize Court of Appeal would

"take"

another

"step"

by recognizing this time the constraint exerted on the complainants.

"The caricature of the rapist who runs into you in an underground parking lot ... It's not just rape."

There are also more vicious, pernicious, refined, discreet rapes, in the closed doors of the offices of people in power.

[...] The heart of this file, it is the influence, the objectification, the subjection ”

, ignited the lawyer.

“When you have a relationship of subordination, you make sure there is no problem.

When you start a threesome, if the girl in front of you doesn't move, you stop, you ask the question, ”

continued Me Laure Heinich, one of Virginie Ettel's lawyers, before her colleague Me Vincent Ollivier does not qualify Georges Tron of

“predator hunting in packs”

in a

“municipal harem”.

"It folds the file!"

In their pleadings, the civil party lawyers returned to several elements that put the defendants in difficulty during the proceedings.

First, plantar reflexology, a passion assumed by Georges Tron.

“Who can believe that it is adequate for an elected representative of the Republic to seize the foot of [women], most often without consent?

Reflexology is a way of breaking down inhibition, in a way so absurd that the stunning effect is guaranteed ”,

underlined Me Guérin, who described“

a method, an approach, a strategy, a way of functioning, a scenario which is almost systematically reproduced

”.

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Then, the discovery at the town hall of a green pocket containing documents on the plaintiffs.

"When I hear that a Secretary of State, a mayor has files on the people he employs compiled, we are in an extremely problematic situation, and which will authorize all kinds of abuse,"

slipped Me Élodie Tuaillon-Hibon, which represents the European association against violence against women at work (AFVT).

Finally, listening to the ex-lover of Georges Tron, in which the latter notably evokes what seems to be a scene of threesomes, and pronounces the word

"hold

".

"It folds the file!"

exclaimed Me Heinich, in his direct and terribly efficient style.

The hearing will continue on Tuesday with the requisitions of the Advocate General and the pleadings of the defense, then Wednesday with the last words of the defendants, the deliberation and the verdict of the Assize Court.

Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel, who proclaim their "innocence", incur twenty years of criminal imprisonment.

"While waiting to be in this world that we are calling for, where there will be no more sexual assault and rape, we must punish

", pleaded Me Tuaillon.

"

We must transfer the moral penalty of one into the criminal penalty that will strike the other."

Source: lefigaro

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