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FRANCE: The former minister Georges Tron gets a dismissal in a case of rape

 

Accused of rape and sexual assault in meeting and person in authority, Georges Tron finally got a non-place, a-t we learned Tuesday, December 10, judicial sources. The former UMP minister was challenged by two former municipal employees of its common Draveil in Essonne.

For now, the parties did not wish to respond, the order of 150 pages not yet in their possession.

Confirming a report in the newspaper "Libération", the judges have also found a place for non-Brigitte Gruel, Assistant to the culture of Georges Tron, also implicated in this case.

One of the two former municipal employees of the municipality of Draveil will appeal the dismissal enjoyed by the former secretary of state, said Tuesday his lawyer AFP. 

A year of investigation

The two judges in charge of this took almost seven months to make their decision based on the submissions of the prosecutor Evry, who had requested a non-place 15 May The end of the statement had been notified by the judges in October 2012, after more than a year of investigation.

After their indictment in 2011, Georges Tron, 54, and Brigitte Gruel, had been left under judicial control.

The case led Georges Tron to resign from his post as Secretary of State for Public Service in May 2011. In June 2012, he lost his seat, delighted by the Socialist Thierry Mandon.

With AFP