She prefers judicial time to media time.
Nicolas Hulot's lawyer, Me Jacqueline Laffont, is delighted this Saturday that the accusations targeting his client are now entering a legal framework, while deploring the media sounding board surrounding the case.
The former environmentalist, journalist and Minister for the Ecological Transition, is implicated by women for rape and sexual assault.
Several of them testified Thursday in the special Envoy program, on France 2. Friday, the Paris prosecutor indicated that he was opening “a preliminary investigation of the counts of rape and sexual assault”.
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Asked this Sunday on BFMTV, Nicolas Hulot's lawyer recalls that this investigation is therefore open in the event of accusations of rape and sexual assault on minors, even if the facts seem prescribed.
This responds to a threefold desire: to free the word of the alleged victims, to check whether the alleged facts can be characterized, and to ensure that the alleged facts are not a tree hiding a forest of other facts that are not themselves. prescribed.
A displacement of the debate "where it should be exercised"
"What must be said is that, when it comes to prescribed facts, there will never be a trial, never a trial," insists Jacqueline Laffont.
So “there will never be any guilt”.
She recalls that the open investigation allows people who so wish to be heard.
According to her, "Nicolas Hulot is delighted, even if the word is perhaps a little strong because it is quite destroyed, but he is delighted that the debate is finally moving where it should be exercised, in respect of the rules of law.
This reassures us all a little bit ”.
"There will never be a trial": Nicolas Hulot's lawyer reacts to accusations of sexual assault on BFMTV pic.twitter.com/4RGavubJQJ
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The lawyer denounces what, until now, is akin, according to her, to a "media lynching".
She speaks of accusations that Nicolas Hulot "does not understand", that he "receives as a deep injustice.
He is thrown into the pasture.
He saw this very painfully ”.
