Verdict day at the Ile de la Cité courthouse.
Wednesday February 17, unless an appeal in cassation, Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel will be definitively fixed on their fate, ten years after the complaints of Eva Loubrieu and Virginie Ettel.
The two former employees of the town hall of Draveil accuse the first city councilor and his former deputy for culture of having sexually assaulted and raped them on several occasions, between 2007 and 2010.
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“I have never had coercive or violent behavior in my life. I had no relationship with Éva Loubrieu or Virginie Ettel. I said it during police custody, before the examining magistrates, during the first trial in Bobigny, and I am repeating it to you forcefully today, ”
said Georges Tron early in the morning, when the president of the Assize Court gave him the floor for his last words.
“I am innocent of everything that I am accused of.
I never committed these facts, ”
said Brigitte Gruel.
"The influence"
On Monday, the civil party lawyers pleaded in court that the plaintiffs had suffered moral constraint because of the
"hold"
exerted on them by Georges Tron.
"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 of power,
”declared Me Loïc Guérin, counsel for Eva Loubrieu.
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Tuesday, also invoking
"the influence"
and the
"constraint"
, the Advocate General called for five years in prison, including three years suspended against the accused, and two years in prison suspended. against the accused.
In his indictment, the magistrate considered that if Georges Tron should be sentenced for "rape" and "sexual assault", Brigitte Gruel, for her part, was
"not guilty
" of "rape", only "sexual assault" .
