She accused him of violence and harassment.
The flagrant investigation, opened after a complaint filed by the parliamentary assistant of RN deputy Romain Baubry at the end of January against him, was closed without further action, the Tarascon public prosecutor's office (Bouches-du-Rhône) said on Thursday.
“I am closing the case because I believe that the offense is not characterized as denounced,” justified prosecutor Laurent Gumbau.
Romain Baubry announced that he will take legal action to “follow up on these slanderous denunciations”.
In a press release dated Friday, the deputy for the 15th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône recalls that he “has always been calm about the follow-up that the prosecution would give to this complaint”.
After the complaint was filed, revealed by Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui in France at the end of January, he had already rejected “abusive and deeply vexatious accusations”.
Classified because the facts never took place.
I will now take legal action to follow up on these slanderous denunciations.
I wonder about the role played by “Reconquête” and in particular Antoine Baudino, the parliamentary assistant of Stéphane Ravier, who seems to have been… pic.twitter.com/P6BZOiULTy
— Romain Baubry (@BaubryR) February 9, 2024
His parliamentary assistant had filed a complaint against him with the Istres gendarmerie for acts of violence which allegedly occurred on January 26 at 10 p.m.
According to his version, a dispute over non-payment of the assistant's working hours was at the origin of the facts.
In her statement to the police, the collaborator explained that the deputy asked her to leave her professional phone, in which a personal SIM card was inserted, while seizing it, because “he no longer had confidence” in her and suspected her. to “foment” against him.
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The elected official would have unlocked the phone to look at his personal messages.
A fight would have followed.
Still according to the employee's version, the elected official pushed her and stuck her fingers in a door, leading to a temporary work interruption of 5 days.
The events allegedly took place in Sénas where the elected official has his parliamentary office.
In addition to this violence, she also denounced a situation of harassment at work.
“I have never committed acts of violence”
Contacted by Le Parisien after learning of the existence of a complaint, Romain Baubry assured that the facts reported are “completely false”.
“I never committed acts of violence against her or against any collaborator,” he insisted.
According to him, the assistant was trying to “keep her place” while dismissal proceedings against her had already been initiated.
According to a source close to the investigation, the working relationship between the assistant and the elected official had deteriorated for some time.
In his Friday press release, the MP "questions the role played by the Reconquest party and in particular by Stéphane Ravie's parliamentary collaborator, Antoine Baudino, who seems to have been very active in the media coverage of this affair."