A French senator accused of drugging a member of parliament with the intention of sexually assaulting her will resign subsequent month, he stated Saturday, although his accuser stated the delayed departure left her in “disgust”.
Senator Joel Guerriau, 67, is going through trial for allegedly utilizing ecstasy to spike a glass of champagne that National Assembly Deputy Sandrine Josso was ingesting in November 2023.
Guerriau, who denies the costs, instructed AFP he would resign from the higher home in early October, confirming a report first printed by API News.
The three-term senator stated he had lengthy deliberate to step down two years into his present six-year time period, denying the choice was associated to his felony case.
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Josso stated the information, “which (Guerriau) claims is the results of a private dedication and never related with the extraordinarily severe authorized case through which he’s charged”, had left her in “disgust”.
“Once once more, it is the aggressor who chooses his schedule, his narrative, his exit,” the decrease home lawmaker stated in an announcement.
“This will not be an act of duty or decency. It’s a strategic retreat, simply months from his trial and having profited immensely from the privileges of his workplace.”
Senate President Gerard Larcher introduced in July that he would refer Guerriau’s case to the chamber’s ethics committee, setting him as much as face doable disciplinary measures.
Guerriau had already been suspended by his get together, the centre-right Horizons group, after he was charged with drugging Josso with the intention of raping or sexually assaulting her.
The senator has rejected the accusation that he intentionally drugged her, describing the incident as a “dealing with error”.
The allegations come after Frenchman Dominique Pelicot was jailed for 20 years in December for repeatedly drugging his spouse so he and strangers may rape her, in a case that shocked France.
