an investigating judge orders a dismissal in favor of the Minister of the Interior

The complainant Sophie Patterson-Spatz accuses the tenant of Beauvau of rape, sexual harassment and breach of trust for facts which allegedly occurred in Paris in 2009.

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Lawyers for Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced to AFP on Monday July 11 that a Parisian investigating judge had ordered a dismissal in favor of their client. “For the fourth time in five years, justice affirms that no reprehensible act can be reproached to Mr. Gérald Darmanin. Two decisions of classification without follow-up then two orders of dismissal intervened under the authority of four different magistrates , including two investigating judges”they noted.

The complainant, Sophie Patterson-Spatz, accuses the tenant of Beauvau of rape, sexual harassment and breach of trust for facts which allegedly occurred in Paris in 2009. In this file, Gérald Darmanin confirmed having had a sexual relationship with the complainant but contests any constraint and any consideration. He filed a complaint for slanderous denunciation. Sophie Patterson-Spatz retains the right to appeal this decision.

She had filed a complaint in 2017, but it had been dismissed by the Paris prosecutor’s office. She then filed a new complaint with civil action in 2018, but an investigating judge refused to resume the investigations. Finally, in mid-June 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered the resumption of investigations into these same accusations.


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