The investigation for "influence peddling" against Darmanin will not be relaunched

Gérald Darmanin has been Minister of the Interior since last.

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The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday that it was confirming its classification without follow-up to an investigation targeting the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, accused of having abused his elected position in 2015 to obtain sex.

The complaint for "abuse of weakness" of this resident of Tourcoing (North), who claimed to have been encouraged to have a sexual relationship with Gérald Darmanin, then mayor of the city, to obtain housing and a job, had been closed. in May 2018 by the prosecution.

But in mid-July, the association Pourvoir feministe had asked the justice to re-examine the facts, constituting according to it of a "trading in influence".

The Minister of the Interior is also the target of a judicial investigation for rape, relaunched in June after a long procedural battle.

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