New stage in the Darmanin affair. The procedure initiated in Lille by a feminist association, which denounces acts of "influence peddling" of the Minister of the Interior was transmitted to the Paris prosecutor's office, we learned Thursday from a judicial source, confirming information from the voice of the North. This referral is being analyzed, said the judicial source.
Sex in exchange for services
Created in June and made up of ten people, the association at the origin of the complaint, “Pourvoir feministe”, had seized the Lille public prosecutor's office last July to relaunch an investigation closed in 2018, opened at the time for "abuse of weakness".
A resident of Tourcoing accused Gérald Darmanin of having encouraged her to have sex in exchange for help in obtaining housing and employment, while she was in a precarious situation. According to her, these facts would have occurred in 2015, when Gérald Darmanin was mayor of the city. The Paris prosecutor's office had closed the case, considering that no criminal offense had been constituted.
Another investigation for rape
Government heavyweight, Gérald Darmanin is also currently the subject of an investigation for rape, started by a complaint filed in 2017. First closed without action, the procedure was recently relaunched by the Court of Appeal of Paris, which asked for new investigations in early June.
The accusation is brought by a woman, Sophie Patterson-Spatz, who had requested it in 2009 when he was in charge of mission at the UMP (party became LR) to overturn a conviction for blackmail and malicious appeals to the regard to an ex-companion. According to her statements, Gerald Darmanin would have dangled his support for her and she would have felt compelled to "go to the pan", as she explained to investigators.
The current Minister of the Interior admitted to having had a sexual relationship with this woman but, according to him, freely consented.
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