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Coquerel case: investigation opened against the LFI deputy for "sexual harassment and assault"

2022-07-13T15:50:10.405Z


A complaint was filed on July 4 by ex-activist Sophie Tissier. L'Insoumis, now chairman of the Assembly's finance committee, strongly disputes the facts.


The case is now in the hands of the courts.

The Paris prosecutor's office announced to AFP on Wednesday that an investigation had been

"opened"

against LFI deputy Éric Coquerel

"for sexual harassment and assault"

.

This decision follows the filing of a complaint on July 4 by the ex-activist Sophie Tissier, just after the election of the Insoumis to the presidency of the finance commission.

The 40-year-old claims to have been

"a victim of sexual harassment and (of) gestures that may be akin to sexual assault"

, in reference to facts that date back to 2014, during the Left Party summer school in Grenoble.

What Éric Coquerel strongly disputes.

The rebels unite

Sophie Tissier also made a report to the LFI committee against sexist and sexual violence in early July.

Within the Insoumis, some however did not fail to recall that she had so far always refused to take this step, considering the facts

“not serious enough”

.

“I had forgotten and minimized myself so that I could 'turn the page'.

Reactivating the past made me realize the gravity of what I had suffered by Coquerel

, ”she replied on Twitter on July 4.

The internal party committee against gender-based and sexual violence has since undertaken to receive her to hear her.

Serene, the Insoumis have meanwhile contented themselves with repeating that the alleged facts were not, according to their information,

“criminal”

.

On Twitter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, former LFI presidential candidate and close to Éric Coquerel had even gone further by denouncing on July 3 an orchestrated

"barouf"

to allow a "

revenge of the RN"

after the failure of the party .

of Marine Le Pen to obtain the presidency of the Finance Committee in the Assembly.

The maximum period being six years to lodge a complaint in the event of an offence, the facts mentioned could be prescribed.

The investigations were entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of delinquency to persons (BRDP) and the investigation concerns, for the moment, only the complaint of Sophie Tissier, according to two sources close to the file quoted by AFP.

Source: lefigaro

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