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"The man in the cap" of the election of Emmanuel Macron tried for sexual assault

2020-10-21T19:25:14.213Z


The Nantes prosecutor's office requested a six-month suspended prison sentence for Morgan Simon, former LREM parliamentary attaché. The criminal court


Six months suspended prison sentence were required this Wednesday, October 21 against Morgan Simon, "the man in the cap" who was behind Emmanuel Macron after his election to the Elysee Palace, for a "sexual assault" in 2016 on another LREM activist.

The public prosecutor has also requested his registration in the Automated Judicial File of Perpetrators of Sexual Offenses (FIJAIS), which would force him to report at least once a year for twenty years at the police station or the gendarmerie brigade. closer to his home.

The former parliamentary attaché of the deputy LREM Valérie Oppelt is in fact accused of having "raised the skirt" and "caressed the chest" of the young woman on December 1, 2016, during an evening organized in a bar in Nantes after François Hollande's announcement not to run for a second term as President of the Republic.

She had lodged a complaint against him on October 25, 2017, ten months after the evening, by means of a letter addressed to the public prosecutor.

The young woman - who asks for 1 symbolic euro in damages - had also reported pornographic files sent by the defendant on Snapchat and salacious comments on the road to a meeting in Le Mans (Sarthe).

He claims to be the victim of a "conspiracy"

At the hearing, Morgan Simon first said to keep a "rather vague memory" of this "drunken evening", except that the complainant "danced on the bar" and that she had "worn the way. Dirty Dancing ”in the nearby square.

Described as "quite energetic", but also "quite raw" and "obsessed with the sexual vocabulary", this 35-year-old man also admitted "being vulgar to amuse the gallery".

He finally put forward his homosexuality to deny any sexual “desire” towards the complainant, and therefore any “sexual assault”.

Morgan Simon also explained these accusations by a "plot" hatched by Stéphane Gachet, departmental referent of the macronist movement in Loire-Atlantique after a temporary eviction, to reach the LREM deputy Valérie Oppelt.

Morgan Simon also saw it as a form of “retaliation”: he intended to end the duties of the complainant, then responsible for Youth with Macron (JAM), because of her “incompetence”.

This former law student, who wanted to become a journalist before running Pizza Hut pizzerias, is now a “logistics manager”: the MP ended her trial period following this affair.

His lawyer pleaded his release pure and simple: the photo of "the man in the cap" behind Emmanuel Macron is "the key to this file", "this generated a huge number of jealousies, because he had direct access to the President of the Republic… All the politicians from the cantonal capitals have seen each other, the race for positions has been very important, ”Me Joachim Esnault told the judges.

The Nantes Criminal Court will deliver its judgment on December 17.

Source: leparis

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