The investigation targeting Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, the Secretary of State for Development, accused in two complaints of rape for acts committed when she practiced as a gynecologist, was dismissed for insufficiently characterized offense.
Opened in May 2022, this investigation which had been entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP) was closed at the end of March, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday, confirming information from BFMTV. Targeted by two complaints for rape, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou was reproached by patients for the gestures that she would have imposed on them during examinations carried out when she was a gynecologist.
She worked in the service of Emile Daraï
A third complaint was then filed in June 2022 for violence without incapacity for work by a person responsible for a public service mission. After the announcement of the opening of an investigation targeting her, the Secretary of State had rejected the accusations, judging them “unacceptable and revolting”.
Elected in 2019 on the Renaissance list in the European Parliament, where she notably sat on the Committee on Women’s Rights, the Secretary of State is a doctor who has long been involved in the issue of endometriosis. In 2021, it submitted a report on the subject to the French government.
Born in Sparta, she studied in Italy before practicing in France, at the Bégin military hospital in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne) then at the Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), notably in Tenon in the department of Pr Emile Daraï, also under investigation for rape charges.