Regarding the rape charges against the new minister, the LREM deputy from Oise says: “What is very important is the presumption of innocence. The word of the victims is also important. That’s why it’s complicated.”
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Éric Woerth says he heard “rumors” in 2017 concerning Damien Abad, accused of raping two women. The two men were then both members of the Republicans. “Back then”that “had not resulted in any legal proceedings”explained the LREM deputy from Oise, chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, in Political Questions on franceinfo, France Inter and Le Monde, Sunday, May 29.
An “extremely difficult” subject
Regarding the accusations against the new Minister of Solidarity, Eric Woerth says: “What is very important is the presumption of innocence. The word of the victims is also important. That’s why it’s complicated.” Candidate for the presidential majority in the legislative elections, he believes that he is “extremely difficult” to speak out on the subject. “Everything is extraordinarily misinterpreted”, he said. He considers that it is always the court decisions that must prevail. “You can’t just be in the hour of suspicion all the time” because, he says, “the more you are exposed, the more you can be suspected”. “That would mean that anyone in government” or elsewhere, in a position of responsibility, “could be subject to fake news”worries Éric Woerth.