Former deputy and candidate for the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections Jean Lassalle has been targeted by a preliminary investigation by the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office for crimes of rape and sexual assault, according to information from BFMTV and confirmed in particular by the agency “Le Figaro” and the French news agency (Agence France-Presse). The investigation is about the facts “old”dating back to 2010, At the moment it has not been confirmed.According to the prosecution told AFP. It was handed over to the police.
Investigations were launched following a complaint by a 45-year-old woman who claims that Jean Lassalle raped her. She told BFMTV that the case would have started with a problem at her daughter’s school. “I was very upset. I had to change her school. We were in the middle of the provincial election campaign. I thought the candidates could help me.” Jean Lassalle answers her call and she ends up participating in his campaign.
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One evening, she says, Jean Lassalle called her directly and offered to join her at a grand hotel in Bordeaux. She first thinks of a team meeting but finds herself alone with him in a room. “He kissed me twice. I pushed him away. I even told him I could call someone else if he wanted.”, she explained. She asserts that Jean Lassalle did not believe her when she explained to him that she was pregnant, before calling out a half-word chain rape.
At that time, I entrusted this event to relatives, whom the investigators will soon interview. Hearings of witnesses are planned as well as hearings for the defendant “in the coming weeks”According to a source in Agence France-Presse. Meanwhile, she has lived more than a decade in silence and says she attempted suicide. “I wanted to file a complaint to denounce the facts, to make sure he doesn’t cause other victims and to close this arc.”she explained.
“I don’t have to deny or not deny, I’m waiting to know more”
In answer to a question from France Bleu Bern Bigorre, Jean Lassalle assured him that ” do not remember ” who is this women. “I have never been so drugged or drunk as to find a pregnant woman in my bed and rape her.”he adds.
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“This person was going to ask me for a favor. I don’t have to deny or not deny, I’m waiting to find out more. I’m facing.” Jean Lassalle assures the media that he does not have a lawyer and believes he will be heard quickly, even as his accuser is confronted.
“We found it very upsetting to see this issue come to light today, when it is in the news by appearing on a TV show.”For his part, Pierre Claret, spokesman for the former elected official and his political movement, Résistons!, told AFP. Jean Lassalle, 68, is a candidate for the second season of the investigation game “Les Traitors”, which has been broadcast since July 12 on M6.
Already quoted during #balancetonporc
The name of the former sponsor, which for two decades remained in the National Assembly – under the name UDF, then MoDem and finally his movement Résistons! -, was soon cited in the stream of testimonials that swept the hashtag #balancetonporc. In 2017, French Communist Party communications director Julia Castaner accused Jean Lassalle of putting her One hand on the buttocks..
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Several women testified at Mediapart, including former Socialist Party deputy Colette Capdeviel. Karen Berger, a former Socialist MP for Upper Alps, described it to the investigative website as: “Top Vice. He is really very special with women.
With “Sud-Ouest,” one of her collaborators reported: “Yes, it is very tangible and it might shock those who are not from the Southwest.” Jean Lassalle has always denied these accusations.
