In July 2011, in a column published in the newspaper Le Monde, François Durpaire, 51, a historian of the United States, asked the question in the middle of the DSK affair: "Do you have to be necessarily virtuous to be recognized as a victim of an attack? sexual?
He added: “You may even have sought to profit financially from an odious aggression – this is what a phone call made the day after the events
(to the Sofitel in New York)
would suggest – and have actually suffered this aggression.
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It was two months before the publication of this forum, in 2011, that the facts denounced by a young woman in a complaint against him would have occurred.
This figure known to viewers of BFMTV, where he regularly intervenes as a "United States consultant" was indicted on Thursday, September 1 for rape and placed under judicial supervision.
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The facts would have taken place in his apartment on rue de la Roquette (Paris XI).
The historian and the young woman, now 39, would have had a brief relationship.
It was then that she came to seek explanations that she tells that she was raped.
The story remains buried until 2020. The two ex-lovers meet again and talk about this event.
According to our information, they would then have agreed on a financial transaction… American style!
“He trusts in justice”
The agreed sum: 60,000 euros with 5,000 euros paid immediately.
But the solution does not please the thirty-something who changes her mind and files a complaint.
The Paris prosecutor's office is opening an investigation entrusted to the 2nd judicial police district (DPJ).
François Durpaire is summoned this Tuesday to be placed in police custody.
In front of the investigators, he spoke but wished to remain silent during his first appearance interrogation before the investigating magistrates, who decided to place him under judicial supervision, without the bail requested by the prosecution.
“It is the sign that justice also has confidence in him and in his guarantees of representation and that the judges will instruct in charge and in discharge”, notes Me Dorothée Bisaccia-Bernstein, who assists the historian.
The lawyer adds: “He had heard of charges for a few months, this opening of judicial information reassured him, it allows him to know the charges against him.
This will allow the manifestation of the truth.
Mr. Durpaire will deliver his explanations during the examination on the merits which will take place in a few weeks.
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