The former Secretary of State, Georges Tron, convicted under French law for rape and sexual assault on a collaborator, will seize the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the procedure which he considers “so singular” to against him, he said on Friday.
“I reaffirm here today (…) that I am innocent of the accusations brought against me”, declared Georges Tron in a press release sent by the town hall of Draveil (Essonne), which he led from 1995 until May.
“Plantar reflexology sessions”
The rejection on Wednesday of the appeal by the 64-year-old councilor made the five-year prison sentence final, including two suspended sentences, to which the Paris Assize Court condemned him on appeal in February. Since the verdict, the ex-elected LR has been incarcerated in the Health prison in Paris. At the end of a procedure with twists and turns, Georges Tron and his former assistant for Culture in Draveil, Brigitte Gruel, were found guilty on appeal of having imposed touching and digital penetrations in November 2009 and January 2010 on a municipal employee. , Virginie Ettel, under the guise of plantar reflexology sessions.
The Assize Court, on the other hand, acquitted them of similar facts on the second plaintiff, Eva Loubrieu. Brigitte Gruel was sentenced to two years in prison. “Like any citizen, I can only worry about the context in which henceforth the procedures which follow a simple filing of a complaint are investigated, concomitantly publicized and relayed deliberately in the public square”, writes Georges Tron in his press release, denouncing such a “singular procedure”. “It is impossible to defend yourself fairly in such conditions,” he said.
The Superior Council of the Magistracy seized
The condemnation and the spectacular fall of Georges Tron sounded like a dramatic turn in the politico-judicial soap opera stretched over a decade, marked by his resignation from the Fillon government in 2011, a dismissal order quashed and the acquittal of the two. accused at first instance in 2018.
In parallel, Georges Tron indicates his intention to seize the Superior Council of the Magistrature for an interview given in June to the newspaper The Parisian by the former attorney general of Paris, Catherine Champrenault, where she had qualified the Tron file as “combat”.