Dismissal pronounced for François Asselineau within the investigation for sexual harassment and assault | EUROtoday

On December 6, two investigating judges issued an order dismissing the case for the president of the Popular Republican Union (UPR), François Asselineau, within the investigations focusing on him since 2020, Agence France-Presse discovered ( AFP), Thursday December 26, from a supply near the case confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s workplace, which introduced that it could enchantment this choice.

The magistrates “thus rejected all of the seven charges which had been brought against François Asselineau and which included accusations of “sexual assault” and “harassment””reacted to AFP M^e Pierre Darkanian, lawyer for the pinnacle of the UPR, aged 67. “François Asselineau reaffirms his serenity in the context of this appeal and waits for the investigating chamber to confirm the dropping of all charges against him”specified M^e Darkanian.

The prosecution had requested on December 14, 2023 that Mr. Asselineau be tried earlier than the prison court docket “for attempted aggravated sexual assault and moral harassment at work against two of his colleagues, as well as for acts of intimidation with a view to determining the ‘one of them not to file a complaint’.

François Asselineau denounced “slander”

A preliminary investigation was opened on May 15, 2020 to review the criticism filed ten days earlier by “a collaborator within the UPR who claimed to have been harassed upon his hiring in 2019 and to have had kisses imposed on him”recalled the prosecution. A second worker filed a criticism on June 25, 2020 “for similar facts in 2018”he added.

During his police custody in February 2021, François Asselineau was confronted by the 2 complainants who maintained their variations of the info. The president of the pro-“Frexit” get together had disputed the accusations, calling them “slander”. He had been indicted for ethical harassment, sexual harassment, sexual assault by an individual in authority and intimidation of a sufferer and positioned underneath judicial supervision.

His entourage then denounced a “judicial procedure initiated by two former employees of the movement, concomitantly with an attempt to take control of the UPR by a handful of members” in spring 2020.

Supporter of France’s exit from the European Union, the euro and NATO, François Asselineau obtained 0.92% of the votes within the 2017 presidential election.