Lawyer Patrick T., former partner of a large Parisian business firm, was sentenced this Thursday in the early afternoon to one year in prison suspended by the Paris Criminal Court for having filmed and photographed under the skirts of a trainee and two collaborators, in 2014 and 2019. A sentence in accordance with that required, on July 1, by the prosecution.
Solicited, the advice of the lawyer of 59 years, Mes Jacqueline Laffont and Christian Charrière-Bournazel, did not wish to comment.
They nevertheless let the Parisian know that they had already appealed.
For his part, Me Joseph Hazan, the lawyer for one of the three plaintiffs, welcomed the news with "relief and satisfaction".
“The court gave judicial credibility to my client's version, which was the subject, throughout the two hearings, of particularly virulent challenges.
This demonstrates the courage she had to file a complaint, ”said the lawyer.
Two endless days of hearings
The first day of this trial before chamber 10-2 of the Paris Criminal Court, on January 8, ended - after eight hours of debates and a parade of witnesses called by the defense - with a referral for further information. .
Two computer expertises later, the hearing resumed on Thursday, July 1, for nearly nine hours.
The case began after the filing of a complaint by a young trainee of the prestigious law firm, in August 2019. While in the office of Patrick T., renowned lawyer specializing in social law, she had heard the characteristic sound of a video starting on a smartphone, and had seen the renowned social lawyer with his phone between his legs, the lens facing the ceiling. His complaint had aroused other testimonies, including those of two other young women, who became civil parties. All of them delivered stories with identical scenarios.
At the hearing, Patrick T., sure of himself, had vigorously proclaimed his innocence, considering himself the victim of a plot hatched by a rival social law team within the firm. Shortly after the initiation of the procedure, the fifty-year-old had submitted his resignation. He is now a partner in another Parisian firm.
