Epstein case: British police to review charges against Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew has dismissed sexual assault charges in the Epstein case.
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British police on Thursday, August 12, promised to re-examine the charges against Prince Andrew after a woman filed a complaint in the United States who accuses him of sexual abuse when under the influence of late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Virginia Giuffre
claims that the second son of the Queen of Elizabeth II is "
one of the powerful men
" to whom she was "
handed over for sexual purposes
" when she was the victim between 2000 and 2002, as of age 16, of the vast sex trafficking for which financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged and incarcerated, before killing himself in a Manhattan prison in the summer of 2019.
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Epstein case: a complaint filed in New York against Prince Andrew
She filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Manhattan.
"
I asked my team to look at the documents again
," said London Police Chief Cressida Dick on LBC radio, adding that these accusations had already been investigated twice, in cooperation with the prosecution.
“
We are of course ready to work with the foreign authorities, we will provide them with all the assistance requested within the framework of the law.
"
No one is above the law,
" she said.
Charges denied by Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew, who had already rejected these allegations, is accused in the complaint of having "
sexually assaulted
" Virginia Giuffre, then a minor, on three occasions: in London at a very close to Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and in the properties of businessman in New York and the Virgin Islands. Contacted by AFP, neither the services of Prince Andrew nor the royal family wished to comment.
The 61-year-old Duke of York had already "
categorically
" denied such accusations in an interview deemed calamitous to the BBC in November 2019, where he did not express a single regret for his friendship with Epstein or the slightest empathy for its victims.
Despite his denials, his association with the American businessman had plunged him into turmoil and forced him to retire from public life.
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AFP
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