One year suspended prison sentence and five years of ineligibility required against former LREM MP Laetitia Avia

The public prosecutor requested, Thursday, June 1, a one-year suspended prison sentence, five years of ineligibility and a fine of 10,000 euros against the former LREM deputy Laetitia Avia for moral harassment on seven former parliamentary assistants. The former MP, who has become a lawyer again since her defeat in the 2022 legislative elections, pleaded for release, castigating accusations “contested and decontextualized”. The court reserved judgment on July 5.

Taking up the testimonies of the seven plaintiffs who worked with Laetitia Avia between 2017 and 2020, the representative of the public prosecutor considered that they reflected well “excess” and the “repetition” that characterize bullying. The chosen one is suspected of having “disparaged” And “humbled” its employees, for having set up a “climate of fear” and required availability “24 hours a day” as well as requested undue tasks related to his personal life. Facts that had an impact on the “physical and psychological health” of his assistants, according to the prosecution.

Speaking of“self-suggestions”Laetitia Avia’s lawyer, Basile Ader, claimed that the plaintiffs “self-comforting” and that they had “told their little story a posteriori”. Speaking of “big lies” And “evolutions” on the part of the plaintiffs, he referred to a “tremendous disloyalty”pleading for release at the risk of a “huge injustice”.