(Paris) The director of events for the far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemmour, Olivier Ubéda, was heard on Tuesday in an open hearing as part of the investigation targeting him for “rape”, we learned. from consistent sources.
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“Hearing over. I arrived free. I come out free. No custody. No indictment, ”announced on his Twitter account Mr. Ubéda shortly after 5 p.m.
“The person concerned was heard today in a free hearing and this hearing is over,” the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to AFP.
According to a source close to the investigation, he was summoned to the premises of 1er judicial police district for a free hearing.
“My lawyers are preparing to file a complaint for slanderous denunciation. Nothing to add. I have a mission to accomplish. And I’m going to get down to it, “added the 51-year-old communications consultant, who appears in Éric Zemmour’s campaign organization chart as “events director”.
An 18-year-old man, who allegedly worked with him as an intern, denounced rapes that allegedly began in the spring of 2021 and continued until the fall, when he filed a complaint, according to BFMTV, which reported disclosed this information.
A complaint was filed on December 9 and an investigation was opened the next day for rape.
“I learned the name of the accuser. He was not a trainee,” Mr. Ubeda told AFP on Tuesday. It is “someone I knew but not a collaborator”, he underlined.
The entourage of the presidential candidate had indicated on Monday that Éric Zemmour and Olivier Ubéda had spoken on the telephone during the day and that the latter remained in office “for the moment”.
He is responsible for the organization and scenography of electoral assemblies, such as that of December 5 in Villepinte or that scheduled for Saturday in Lille. He lends his voice to the presentations of the electoral assemblies of the far-right candidate.
He had already provided communication for Éric Zemmour during the author’s pre-campaign, around his book France has not said its last word.
Former member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP, renamed “Les Républicains” in 2015), Olivier Ubéda is a well-known personality on the right, for whom he has regularly organized electoral events, in particular for Nicolas Sarkozy.