The court finally reclassified the facts, considering that Laurent Bigorgne, former director of the Institut Montaigne, had drugged one of his collaborators, also sister of his first wife, on February 22, 2022 at his home,
“in order to commit rape or sexual assault against him
.
This was what the victim, Sophie Conrad, 41, asked for.
The former boss of the liberal think-tank, an influential figure, longtime close to President Macron, was sentenced to twelve months in prison suspended.
The 48-year-old man was absent on Thursday during the deliberations.
In the process, his lawyer, Me Sébastien Schapira announced his decision to appeal
"this rather incoherent judgment".
“A court is not there to get into people's heads.
The sexual intention does not appear from the file, nor from the testimony of the victim”
, he believes, denouncing “
a militant reconstruction of the facts a posteriori
”.
“
When you are two grams away from coke and you decide in two seconds, there is no…
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