The centrist elected official who accuses the Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad, of having tried to rape her in 2010, is filing a complaint, announced her lawyer Raphaële Bialkiewicz to franceinfo on Monday, confirming information from Mediapart. This complaint is “currently under analysis”, said the Paris prosecutor’s office to AFP.
Damien Abad will file a complaint for slanderous denunciation
The Minister of Solidarity is accused of rape or attempted rape by three women. Charges he denies. Damien Abad has also announced that he will file a complaint in turn for slanderous denunciation, in the face of “false accusations”. “Once again, I strongly contest any accusation of attempted rape or sexual assault”, he said in a written statement sent to the press. “I will not leave these false and outrageous accusations unanswered. From that day, I asked my lawyers to file a complaint for slanderous denunciation”, he added.
An attack during a party at the home of Damien Abad
According to the plaintiff’s attorney, who confided in franceinfothe events occurred in the first half of 2010, at a party at the Parisian home of Damien Abad. Master Bialkiewicz reports that his client saw “a filth” at the bottom of the glass that the latter had just offered him. She thought it was cigarette ash, so she rushed to the bathroom to spit out the sip she had just swallowed.
The lawyer continues her story: the complainant explained to her that she then found herself face to face with Damien Abad, who then pushed into a room with a couch or a bed. He made her an armbar to push his head towards his crotch. It was then that Damien Abad tried to force oral sex on her. The complainant told her lawyer that she resisted, defended herself and that she punched him in the stomach. According to her, the respondent began to whine and asked her why she refused to sleep with him.
It’s not my fault, I’m disabled and you have big boobs”
Me Bialkiewicz explains that his client then managed to get out of this room. According to Raphaële Bialkiewicz, Damien Abad started making advances to his client from the moment he was elected MEP. She reports that he proposed to her one-on-one night tours in parliament, and that the latter declined these invitations. His client also told him that‘he rubbed his chest as soon as he passed her, saying “It’s not my fault, I’m disabled and you have big boobs”. She also reports that the chosen one went “further away” during a wedding, organized at the end of July 2010. The complainant, according to her, accepted that he be a few seconds at her side on the dance floor but Damien Abad became very insistent and rude, according to his testimony.
In a column published Monday, June 20 by The worldnearly 200 women, elected officials, journalists, feminists, artists, had demanded the resignation of the minister.