Accused of rape, Darmanin says that he has ” nothing to hide “

The minister of public Accounts Gérald Darmanin said this Monday, June 15, 2020 that it had nothing wronga week after that the court of appeal of Paris ordered the resumption of investigations on a charge of rape in 2009 to his arrest.

You need to know to stay quiet as a Baptist when you have nothing to hide, which is my casesaid Darmanin on BFMTV/RMCthat says at the disposal of justice.

There were two classifications without following […] there was a non-place. It’s been three years, with these three court decisions that I slander, he added. There must be also a limit to the slander , he insisted.

The policy, it is something that is wonderful because you help your fellow citizens. Sometimes, there are sides more difficultsaid the minister, referring to there attacks.

It is always difficult to attack, to calumniate, he completed.

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Support in exchange for sexual favors

Gérald Darmanin is accused by Sophie Patterson-Spatz of raping her in 2009. At the time, she was sent to the elected, then chargé de mission in the legal affairs department of the UMP, to try to undo a conviction in 2004 for extortion and malicious calls against an ex-companion.

According to her, Gérald Darmanin him would have dangled its support for the Chancellery, in exchange for sexual favors.

Two years after the closing of the preliminary investigation during which the minister had been heard without being confronted with her accusatory, the justice accepted the request of the complainant, to deepen the investigations.

The minister confirmed to have had a sexual relationship with Sophie Patterson-Spatz, but according to him, with the free consent and at the initiative of the complainant.

The examining chamber of the court of appeal found that the investigating judge could not rely solely on the results of the preliminary investigation to refuse the August 16, 2018 to relaunch the investigation in this case.

The chamber of the instruction was given in order, by a decision of the Court of cassation of November 2019, the reconsideration of the validity of this non-place which had been granted Darmanin in August 2018.

This approach followed the classification without further action by the prosecutor’s office, decided at the end of a preliminary inquiry during which the minister had been heard, without being confronted at her accusingly.

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