New dismissal for Gérald Darmanin.
The investigating chamber of the court of appeal rendered its decision on Tuesday confirming the decision to dismiss the case rendered at first instance last July.
Sophie Patterson-Spatz had appealed against this decision in favor of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, whom she accuses of having raped her in 2009.
The Attorney General of Paris Rémy Heitz confirmed in a press release the meaning of this decision of the investigating chamber which comes to clear a little more the political horizon of Gérald Darmanin by putting an end to this very sensitive file, open since 2017 .
According to documents consulted by AFP, the public prosecutor's office had requested confirmation of the dismissal, dismissing "the hypothesis of false or malicious accusations" by Sophie Patterson-Spatz, but considering "that it cannot be considered that '(she) did not consent to the sexual act'.
The plaintiff's lawyer considered, on the contrary, that her client was not consenting.
Me Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon evokes a "surprise rape" and an "extorted" sexual relationship, "neither free nor consented".
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