Lawyer Antoine Vey, former associate of Éric Dupond-Moretti, is the subject of a preliminary investigation for moral harassment at work, a source close to the investigation told AFP, confirming information from
Libération
.
This investigation, entrusted on January 19 to the Brigade for the Repression of Delinquency Against the Person (BRDP) of the Parisian judicial police, follows the complaint of a former collaborator, for facts from 2017 and 2018. This complaint “
filed five years after the person left the firm has absolutely no basis
,” reacted Me Antoine Vey to AFP.
“A deleterious atmosphere”
For her part, the complainant, who requested anonymity, denounced the
“toxic”
behavior of the lawyer.
“In a practice, long hours are classic.
The problem was the atmosphere was so deleterious: we were always at fault, Antoine spent his time manipulating us, giving orders then counter-orders, yelling,”
assured the complainant, contacted by AFP.
“I couldn't take it so much anymore that I resigned after nine months
,” she added.
What followed were
“three years of
extremely deep
depression ”
which she attributed to these working conditions.
At the time, the lawyer was associated with Me Eric Dupond-Moretti, current Minister of Justice.
The sole purpose of this complaint
“is to fuel a media campaign, carefully orchestrated, aimed at harming my activity and my office
,” criticized Me Antoine Vey.
“I won’t let it happen”
It comes less than a year after the publication of an article in the newspaper
Libération
, which had collected around twenty testimonies from former or current colleagues in his office denouncing actions or comments experienced as moral or sexual harassment.
“I will not allow myself to be done, especially since this action comes from a colleague to whom I reached out, notably by hiring her at the firm, when she was going through a tragic period,”
he said. -he adds.
Before the investigations at the BRDP, the Paris bar, which had received several reports against Me Vey, had already launched its own ethics investigation, in January 2023. According to a source close to the case at AFP, this investigation led, at the end of December, to a disciplinary procedure, the conclusions of which have not yet been rendered.
Contacted, the Order did not wish to comment.