Former Secretary of State Jean-Vincent Placé, prosecuted for sexual assault, obtained on Tuesday February 14 the cancellation of part of the procedure and his indictment relating to facts alleged by one of the two women. having accused him, AFP learned from concordant sources.
He remains indicted for the sexual assaults denounced by another woman.
According to a judicial source, the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal "
partially annulled certain procedural documents which referred to acts which would have been committed abroad without the legal provisions applicable in this case have been complied with
”.
“
With regard to the other facts denounced, the judicial investigation is continuing
”, indicated this source.
Indictment in 2022
Jean-Vincent Placed was indicted in March 2022 for sexual assault against these two women.
One of them, a former collaborator who had followed him from the Senate to the State Secretariat for Reform and Simplification, had filed a complaint against him in November 2021, accusing the former elected environmentalist of acts of sexual harassment between 2012 and 2016. She accused him in particular of having "
touched her buttocks
", in August 2015 in a nightclub in Lille, on the sidelines of the summer gathering of Europe Ecology the Greens (EELV).
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The second denounced attack allegedly occurred in mid-May 2016 in Seoul, during an official trip by Jean-Vincent Placé: in a car, François Hollande's former secretary of state allegedly "deliberately touched Audrey's
chest
".
The Paris prosecutor's office quickly opened a preliminary investigation.
In this case, another woman had been heard by the investigators and had said that she had also been sexually assaulted in Seoul.
However, she refused to file a complaint against the politician.
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The prosecution, which opened a judicial investigation in March, had nevertheless requested that the investigating judge investigate and also indict him for these facts.
However, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure, to prosecute acts committed abroad, either a prior complaint from the victim is required, or an official denunciation from the State where these acts allegedly occurred.
Contacted by AFP, Jean-Vincent Placé's lawyer, Me Jade Dousselin, declined to comment.
