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Accusations against Damien Abad: Elisabeth Borne invites victims to file a complaint

2022-06-15T13:22:17.061Z


The Prime Minister, on a campaign trip to Calvados on Wednesday, assures us that she cannot comment "about an anonymous testimony" accusing Damien Abad of attempted rape. The latter “categorically” refuted these accusations.


Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, on a campaign trip to Calvados on Wednesday, invited women victims of sexual violence to file a complaint, assuring that she could not comment "

about an anonymous testimony

" accusing Damien Abad of an attempt of rape.

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The Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad, already implicated for sexual violence, is targeted by new accusations from a woman who says she suffered an attempted rape in 2010, according to her account published Tuesday by Mediapart.

It is essential that on these subjects the voice of women (…) be heard.

You understand that I cannot comment on the basis of anonymous testimonies

, ”she told the press in the Villers-Bocage market, in the 6th district of Calvados, where she is campaigning for the legislative elections.

As Prime Minister, I also say it as a woman, we must allow justice to establish the facts.

Do not hesitate to file a complaint. (...) I am not a judge and investigations are not carried out with anonymous testimonies.

Everything is done to (…) welcome women as well as possible so that they can file a complaint and that justice can establish the facts

”, she added.

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In the testimony collected by Mediapart, "

Laëtitia

" (assumed name), an "

elected centrist

", accuses Damien Abad of having tried to rape her during a party organized at his home in Paris in the first half of 2010. Without explicitly mentioning a complaint, his lawyer, Me Raphaëlle Bialkiewicz, told Mediapart that she was proceeding "

to the collection and cross-checking of elements, with a view to providing all the necessary follow-up

".

These accusations come after those published by the online media on May 20, the day after the appointment of Damien Abad as Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disabled People: two women, quoted by Mediapart, accused the new minister of raped in 2010 and 2011.

Damien Abad, who is seeking a new mandate as deputy on Sunday in Ain, denounced Tuesday to AFP the "

carefully chosen schedule of these publications"

and the "

partiality

" of the Mediapart investigation, which according to him has a

political

motivation

.

As for the allegations reported, they revolt me ​​and I categorically refute them

,” added Damien Abad in a message sent to AFP.

Source: lefigaro

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