Senator Joël Guerriau, accused of tried rape, will resign from his mandate in early October | EUROtoday

Senator Joël Guerriau, suspected of getting drugged the deputy Sandrine Josso (MoDem) with a purpose to violate her in 2023, will resign from his mandate on October 6, 2025, in response to the API News company.

According to this subsidiary of Ouest-France, Based in Nantes and specializing within the economic system, the elected official of Loire-Atlantique, aged 67, confirmed this resolution in a letter which can be addressed to the mayors of the division. This departure “Is not a consequence of his judicial case, but the translation of a commitment made during the senatorials of 2023”According to API News.

In a message despatched on Saturday September 20 to the France-Presse (AFP) company, the Senator of Loire-Atlantique mentioned that he had already undertaken to go away his third time period “After two years” As he brooded in 2023, to offer solution to “Marie-Pierre Guérin”mayor of Bestraye-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique), which “Will strengthen the voice of the rural world” within the Senate.

Loire-Atlantique deputy Sandrine Josso reacted to this resolution. “I learned with disgust this morning the announcement of the upcoming resignation of Joël Guerriau. A decision he presents as the fruit of a personal commitment and not, according to him, in connection with the extremely serious judicial case in which he is indicted “estimated M^me Josso in a press release.

“This scenario no longer abuse. Again, it is the attacker who chooses his calendar, his story, his release. It is not an act of responsibility or decency: it is a strategic withdrawal, a few months from his trial and after having largely benefited from the privileges attached to his function ”estimates the deputy for Loire-Atlantique.

Suspended by his party and by his parliamentary group

The centrist senator will soon be judged by the Paris Criminal Court for having diluted MDMA to 91.1 % pure in a glass of champagne to have his colleague from Parliament consume it in order, according to the ordinance of the judges whose AFP was aware, “To commit rape or sexual assault”. He will also be tried for the detention of narcotics.

Suspended by his Horizons party and by his parliamentary group Les Independents, Mr. Guerriau, senator from Loire-Atlantique since 2011, had excluded to resign from his post as justice had not had ” slice “but he had agreed to put himself “Return” parliamentary work.

In early July, the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, announced that he planned to seize the institution’s ethics committee, paving the way for disciplinary sanctions targeting the senator.