Abad case: the Paris prosecutor's office does not open an investigation "as is"

Europe 1 with AFP 2:29 p.m., May 25, 2022

The Paris prosecutor's office is not opening a preliminary investigation "as is" into the accusations of sexual violence against the new Minister of Solidarity Damien Abad, considering that it does not have "element allowing the identification of the victim of the facts denounced “, he said on Wednesday.

"As it stands, the Paris prosecutor's office does not follow up on the mail from the Observatory of sexist and sexual violence", which transmitted to it the testimony of two women accusing Mr. Abad of rape, "for lack of element allowing to “identify the victim of the facts denounced and, therefore, lack of possibility of proceeding to his detailed hearing”, specified the prosecution.

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