The Paris prosecutor’s office requested, on Wednesday, a dismissal in favor of Gerald Darmanin, targeted since 2017 by a complaint for rape, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, confirming information from BFMTV.
“We take note of this indictment of dismissal and await the final decision of the investigating magistrate”, indicated for their part Mathias Chichportich and Pierre-Olivier Sur, lawyers of the Minister in this highly sensitive file and which has already been the subject long procedural disputes.
A “psychological constraint”
The complainant, Sophie Spatz, lodged a “rape” complaint against Gerald Darmanin in 2017, claiming that the current Minister of the Interior had exerted, in 2009, “psychological coercion” on her in order to obtain her favors. sexual.
Struck with two classifications without follow-up from the prosecution and then by a dismissal of an examining magistrate, his complaint was relaunched in June 2020 by the Paris Court of Appeal, which called for “additional investigations”.