Guillaume, 20, had accused the elected Communist Maxime Cochard of rape. The suicide trail is being considered, and the investigation does not yet establish any link between the charges and his death.
His name was Guillaume, and he was 20 years old. The student in Nanterre was found dead Tuesday February 9 in his university room, revealed The Parisian . The first findings indicate that he hanged himself; the trail of suicide is therefore considered. His disastrous gesture comes three weeks after he accused of rape an elected Parisian Communist, Maxime Cochard and “His companion Victor Laby” in October 2018. The investigation does not establish any link for the moment since the student did not, according to the first observations, leave any trace explaining his gesture.
Cochard denies the facts
“I consider that they took advantage of my youth, of my naivety, of the fact that due to family problems, I didn’t really have a place to sleep, of their responsibilities within the PCF to have sex. non-consented with me “, he said in a series of tweets on January 21. These revelations had the effect of a small bomb within the Parisian left. In the process, the PCF had asked Maxime Cochard, elected of the 14th arrondissement and councilor of Paris, to “To withdraw”.
For his part, the Communist had denounced “A totally false accusation”. “Given the seriousness of such remarks and their slanderous nature, I instructed my lawyer to immediately take legal action for defamation”, he said in a statement posted on his Twitter account.
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