He continued to run the town hall of Draveil, in Essonne, while being imprisoned.

Sentenced on appeal for rape and sexual assault in February, the former Secretary of State Georges Tron finally resigned on Tuesday from his mandate as mayor, told AFP the first deputy Richard Privat, and replacing the mayor "prevented ".

In a letter addressed to the prefecture of Essonne and quoted by the

Parisian

, Georges Tron, secretary of state between 2010 and 2011 in the Fillon government, affirms that it is "a very painful decision".

"At this time, the prefecture has been informed of the prospect of Mr. Tron's resignation but has not received the resignation letters," the prefecture told AFP.

"Daily" in contact with the town hall

After a ten-year judicial soap opera and an acquittal at first instance, the elected official was sentenced on appeal in February to five years' imprisonment, including three farms, for rape and sexual assault of a former employee at the town hall, assorted six years of ineligibility.

He appealed to the Supreme Court.

But three months after this conviction, the opposition and feminist associations criticized his "omnipresence" at the head of the town hall with which he is in "daily" contact.

Letters from the mayor have been read during two municipal councils held since February.

More than 64% re-elected in 2020

Foot massages, clandestine recordings, lies and "omerta", crude descriptions of triolic sex scenes: the microcosm of the town hall had been widely described during the four weeks of the appeal trial held in February.

According to two former employees of the town, civil parties, Georges Tron had used his power and his presence to constitute a "municipal harem" by offering employment to women in his town.

The mayor would have imposed touching and digital penetrations on them between 2007 and 2010, generally during scenes of threesome with his assistant to the Culture of the time, Brigitte Gruel, according to the victims.

LR mayor for 25 years of Draveil, Georges Tron was reelected with more than 64% in the municipal elections in 2020.

On May 12, government spokesperson Gabriel Attal indicated that the government was working on “the conditions” for the dismissal of Georges Tron but that “there are legal issues”.

"I am still presumed innocent"

In his letter, Mr. Tron wrote: “My conviction is not final, I am still presumed innocent and within this framework, and despite the difficulty and the harshness of this situation for my relatives and myself, I have , in full agreement with my municipal team, continued to exercise my functions as mayor of Draveil for the past three months ”.

“But a debate opens today on the material capacity which I would have to carry out my functions.

I do not have the means to participate in it, ”he continued.

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