For a while, he advised Bernard Tapie, ex-associate of the former Minister of Justice Dominique Perben… He is a renowned lawyer who has just been convicted by the Paris Criminal Court.
Aged 53, international arbitration specialist Jean-Georges Betto was found guilty of sexual harassment of three former colleagues who worked within his Parisian firm.
Also tried for moral harassment, he received a suspended prison sentence of 10 months.
However, no ban on practicing has been imposed.
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Between 2012 and 2017, he established a “sexualized climate” in his workplace.
“It appears from the statements of the complainants, the defendant himself and other people who worked there, that he regularly made comments with sexual connotations,” recalled the president of the court when reading the judgment.
Accounts of her erotic dreams, sexual allusions, inappropriate reflections, remarks on physique and clothing… “Some have decided to no longer come to work in dresses,” reports the magistrate.
Or simply put an end to their collaboration with him.
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