Gérald Darmanin, targeted by a rape complaint, claims to be "quiet like Baptiste", in an interview published this Saturday in La Voix du Nord . “I am at the complete disposal of all the magistrates of France. I am quiet like Baptiste, "assured the Minister of the Interior in the regional daily, referring to the character scapegoat suffered blows with phlegm.
Gérald Darmanin was accused in 2017 of rape by a woman, Sophie Patterson-Spatz, who requested it in 2009, when he was project manager in the legal affairs department of the UMP (party which has become LR), to try to set aside his 2004 conviction for blackmail and malicious calls against an ex-companion. According to his statements, Gérald Darmanin would have dangled his support for her and she would have felt compelled to "go to the pan", as she explained to the investigators. The current minister admitted having had sexual intercourse with this woman, but according to him, freely consented.
"A young man's life"
"You still have to measure what it's like to be wrongly accused, to have to explain to your parents what happened because, it's true, I had a life as a young man Explains Gérald Darmanin in the regional daily. Affirming "that his honor is flouted" and his family "insulted", the Minister recalls that three court decisions "were favorable to him".
First of all classified as no action, the procedure was relaunched by the Paris Court of Appeal, which asked for new investigations in early June. Object of forums and feminist demonstrations since his entry into the government, the new Minister of the Interior regrets that "when one cannot attack on the bottom, one tries to dirty".
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- Gérald Darmanin