The president of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot assured Monday on France Info that there would be "no withdrawal of Eric Coquerel" from the presidency of the Finance Committee, despite the investigation opened Tuesday for harassment and assault sexual.

"There will be no withdrawal of Eric Coquerel because there is no new element" since the opening of the investigation, Panot said.

Open investigation

An investigation was opened on Tuesday for sexual harassment and assault to examine the complaint filed by left-wing activist Sophie Tissier against the LFI president of the Assembly's Finance Committee Eric Coquerel.

The environmental deputy and feminist activist Sandrine Rousseau had called Friday Eric Coquerel to put himself, the time of the investigation, "withdrawn" from the presidency of the Finance Committee.

“From the moment a complaint is filed on Monday, the opening of an investigation logically followed this complaint.

So there is no new element, ”said Mathilde Panot.

A case of 2014

"What we blame Eric Coquerel for is having in 2014, in a party, danced a rock (with the complainant, editor's note), and that he would have touched her waist, touched her buttocks and offered to bring back by taxi.

And when she said no, nothing happened, ”insisted the deputy.

“When this woman herself says that it has nothing to do with the Abbad affair (former Minister of Solidarity targeted by an investigation for attempted rape, charges he denies, editor’s note), and that she does not not ask for the resignation of Eric Coquerel, I think we can base ourselves on that, ”notes Panot.

A former "yellow vests"

Sophie Tissier, a 43-year-old former figure of the "yellow vests", denounces in her complaint, filed in early July, facts "which may be similar to a sexual assault" dating from August 23, 2014 in Grenoble, which would have been committed by Coquerel , which he disputes.

She had denounced, on BFMTV, "inappropriate gestures, wandering hands" during an evening organized by the party in 2014, evoking "a salacious, sticky look", "a clumsy flirt" and behavior "outrageous, offensive, harassing" on the part of the deputy.

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