The historic mayor ofIssy les Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) André Santini is the subject of two complaints from two employees of the town hall for “sexual assault” and “sexual and moral harassment”, learned on Friday AFP with the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, confirming information from World .
These two complaints against the 81-year-old elected official were filed on Friday before the Nanterre prosecutor’s office and are “currently under study”confirmed the prosecution, requested by AFP.
According the worldhis former chief of staff and a former bailiff accuse André Santini of harassment and sexual assault, facts dating from 2021 and 2022.
Former Secretary of State for the Civil Service (2007-2009) and ex-MP, André Santini (1988-2017) is UDI mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, a town of nearly 70,000 inhabitants in south-west Paris. , since 1980. He has also been vice-president of Greater Paris and head of the Syndicat des eaux d’Ile-de-France since 1983.
“I naturally deny having had any behavior as described in the complaints”
Contacted by AFP, the lawyers for the two complainants and André Santini, as well as the mayor himself, did not respond immediately.
“I naturally deny having engaged in any behavior as described in the complaints. In forty years of good and loyal service, I have never been accused or accused of such behavior. replied André Santini to the World. “These accusations are part of a climate of conflict concerning the administrative situation of these agents”.
According to the daily, the two plaintiffs were dismissed by the mayor in mid-May, officially for “rupture of the bonds of trust necessary for our collaboration”.