George Tron will not be able to get out of prison.
Justice on Monday rejected a request for release filed by the former Secretary of State, sentenced last month to five years in prison including three years for rape and sexual assault in a meeting, announced his lawyer.
“The conditions for the release of Georges Tron were all met in law.
I regret this decision which seems to me a decision of expediency in a social and media context which should not influence justice ”, declared to AFP Me Solange Doumic, adviser to the 63-year-old politician.
Incarcerated in the prison of Health
On February 17, after eleven hours of deliberation, the Paris Assize Court declared on appeal Georges Tron guilty of rape and sexual assault in a meeting on an employee of his town hall in Draveil (Essonne) in November 2009 and January 2010 He has since been incarcerated at the Health prison in Paris and lodged an appeal in cassation.
His conviction sounded like a coup de theater in this ten-year-long politico-judicial soap opera, marked by the resignation of Georges Tron from the Fillon government in 2011, a dismissal order quashed and the acquittal of the two accused at first instance. in 2018.
His ex-cultural assistant Brigitte Gruel, who appeared alongside him, was sentenced on appeal to two years in prison.
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