Suspended.
The trial before the Paris Assize Court of Appeal of Georges Tron, former Secretary of State for the Public Service (March 2010-May 2011) and current mayor of Draveil (Essonne) was to begin this Tuesday.
But quickly the hearing was closed and will not resume until next Monday.
The elected official indicated at the start of the trial that he had been declared a "contact case" by the "Tous AntiCovid" application on Friday January 15.
He must therefore perform a test next Friday.
"The court ordered an expertise having for object the test and its interpretation", one explains to the general public prosecutor of Paris.
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Within the town hall of Draveil, several cases of Covid-19 have indeed been declared among deputies and close to the mayor.
The latest, an assistant, received her positive test return Monday morning.
However, she had worked face-to-face with Georges Tron last Friday.
The day before the opening of the trial, many exchanges took place between the lawyers of the first councilor and the court of appeal, and it was finally decided that he had to appear this Tuesday morning while waiting for a decision to be made. taken.
Georges Tron and Brigitte Gruel, his former assistant, both 63 years old, must be tried for rape and sexual assault committed on two former collaborators.
They had been acquitted in November 2018 by the Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis while the Advocate General had required six years for the mayor and four years for his alleged accomplice.