A resident of Tourcoing accuses Gérald Darmanin of the have encouraged sexual relations in exchange for help to obtain housing and employment.

The proceedings initiated in Lille by a feminist association, which condemns the facts of “traffic of influence” of the minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, has been transmitted to the prosecutor of Paris, said it learned Thursday justice source, confirming information of the Voice of The North. Founded in June and made up of a dozen people, this association, “Fill feminist”, had seized the prosecutor in Lille in July to re-launch an investigation closed in 2018, which is open at the time for “abuse of weakness”.

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A resident of the Town accused Gérald Darmanin of the have encouraged sexual relations in exchange for help to obtain housing and employment, while she was in a precarious situation. According to her, these facts would be produced in 2015, when Gérald Darmanin was mayor of the city. The parquet de Paris has closed the case, considering that no criminal offence was established. The reference to “Fill feminist” is being investigated by the public prosecutor of Paris, said the source of justice.

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“Or” abuse of weakness, or traffic of influence”

In his letter to the prosecutor of Lille, the association referred to “SMS, letters, invoices seeming to attest to facts that are unlikely to meet the traffic of influence”. Counsel for the minister, Mathias Chichportich, was immediately rejected these accusations. “I hear that the classification of traffic of influence would not have been considered ? (…) To the prosecutor of the Republic Paris, there is no abuse of weakness, or traffic of influence,” he said on Europe 1, in reference to the first decision to dismiss the case.

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heavy Weight of the government, Gérald Darmanin is also the subject of an investigation for rape, currently, started by a complaint filed in 2017. The accusation is brought by a woman, Sophie Patterson-Spatz, who had sought in 2009 when he was chargé de mission in the UMP party (became RL) to overturn a conviction for blackmail and malicious calls in respect of an ex-companion.

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According to his statements, Gérald Darmanin him would have dangled its support and she would have felt compelled to “go to pot”, as she explained to investigators. Gérald Darmanin has admitted to having a sexual relationship with this woman but, according to him, is freely granted. Closed in a first time, the procedure has recently been revived by the Paris court of appeal, which was requested in early June for further investigations.