Already imprisoned in France since the end of May for "rape of a minor", the ex-CEO of Assu 2000 Jacques Bouthier will also have to face Moroccan justice.

Four young women have indeed indicated that they have filed a complaint in Tangier against him for "trafficking in human beings, sexual harassment and verbal and moral violence", indicates Karima Salama, lawyer for the Moroccan Association for the Rights of Victims.

"An investigation is open and we trust justice," said Salama at a press conference in Tangier, where the four Moroccan complainants, aged 26 to 28, were employed by the Assu 2000 group, renamed Vilavi.

Three of them testified to journalists on Friday on condition of anonymity, their identity protected by a sanitary mask and dark glasses. 

"There are witnesses, there is tangible evidence"

They claimed to have been fired after refusing to “give in to harassment and blackmail” from the former CEO “and his accomplices among the French and Moroccan officials” of his company in Tangier.

These young women reported repeated sexual harassment, job blackmail and intimidation, in a climate of social insecurity.

"Jacques Bouthier has no morals or ethics, he is convinced that with his financial power he can afford everything with impunity", denounced the president of the association and lawyer Aïcha Guellaa.

"There are witnesses, there is tangible evidence, there are exchanges on WhatsApp, by email," added Me Guellaa.

Aged 75, Jacques Bouthier, one of the great fortunes of France, was indicted on May 21 in Paris following a preliminary investigation opened in mid-March with five other people, in particular for human trafficking. humans and rape of a minor.

The former business manager is also being prosecuted for criminal conspiracy to commit the crime of kidnapping and kidnapping in an organized gang and possession of child pornography images.

Resignation of the CEO of Assu, accused of "rape of a minor"

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The CEO of Assu 2000, Jacques Bouthier, indicted and imprisoned for rape of a minor

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