A company manager who had sent photos of his former HRD naked to thousands of employees of the latter's new company was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison.

On leaving the Paris court, the victim confided in his disappointment to see the court refuse to reclassify the facts as "harassment".

A man was sentenced Monday in Paris to two years in prison in a "revenge porn" case, after sending emails containing naked photographs of one of his employees, with whom he had had a relationship.

The court did not agree to reclassify the facts as harassment.

Beyond the sentence handed down, it was the whole stake of this trial for the victim, who had demanded this requalification. 

The case began in June 2019: while the director of human resources (HRD) of an engineering consulting company has just accepted a position in another group, an anonymous call and three emails announce her adulterous relationship with her boss, from 2017 to 2019, to her husband, whom she had already informed, and to those around her.

2,000 people received emails

Then, between September and November, nearly 2,000 people received emails, explains the plaintiff's lawyer, Me Vincent de La Morandière.

Photos of the naked victim, messages supposedly written by the couple's children, two girls aged 8 and 10, chronicling adultery, and others accusing the husband of having violent behavior with his children.

The emails were sent to old and new colleagues of the HRD, to parents of pupils of the children's school, to catechism, etc ...

The prosecution had requested in January thirty months suspended prison sentence against the defendant, who changed post after this case and who is today director general of a large engineering group.

"It was stronger than me," he said during the trial, citing a fit of depressive insanity caused by his break with the victim.

"What kept me going was that she shared my pain."

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"He wanted to destroy me personally and professionally," the victim told AFP after the deliberation.

"It was unbearable for this all-powerful man to have a woman who said 'no' to him. It was when I said 'no, it's over' that it all started." 

Another procedure initiated?

"I am HRD and I know the legal definition of harassment very well," continued the complainant as she left the court.

"What makes me hold on today? My husband is by my side and my current employer has supported me. But I am destroyed from within. I almost ended my life. several times because of this case. This is what is happening for Women's Rights Day. "

Now, the victim's lawyer plans not to stop there.

"The accused was found guilty of a series of offenses: violation of correspondence, intrusion into an automatic data system ... My clients have a feeling of incomplete justice since the request for reclassification as 'harassment' did not not recognized at that time. That leaves us with other procedural possibilities, which we will appreciate in the coming days. "

Me Vincent de la Morandière therefore intends to initiate a new procedure, this time under the qualification of 'harassment'.

A symbolic word that the victim would like to hear from the courts.