Elisabeth Borne invites women to “go and file a complaint”

“I am not a judge and investigations are not done with anonymous testimonies,” said the Prime Minister on Wednesday, campaigning in Calvados.

Article written by

Posted

Update

Reading time : 1 min.

She refuses to “pronounce on the basis of anonymous testimonies”. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne called on Wednesday, June 15, women accusing Damien Abad of sexual violence to take legal action. “I really say to women, as Prime Minister and as a woman, that I invite them to file a complaint, because it is important that justice can tell the facts”she replied to a woman who challenged her on the Villers-Bocage market, in the 6th district of Calvados, where she is campaigning for the legislative elections.

Damien Abad case: Elisabeth Borne arrested in Calvados

The Minister of Solidarity, Damien Abad, already implicated for sexual violence, is the target of new accusations from a woman who says she suffered an attempted rape in 2010. “I am not a judge and investigations are not done with anonymous testimonies, continued Elisabeth Borne. Everything is done to (…) welcome women as well as possible so that they can file a complaint and that justice can establish the facts.


source site