Laetitia Avia sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence and two years of ineligibility

The former deputy (LREM) of Paris Laetitia Avia was sentenced to six months in prison suspended and two years of ineligibility for moral harassment on four complainants, former parliamentary assistants, Wednesday July 5 at the Paris Criminal Court, a learned franceinfo from a source familiar with the matter. Basile Ader, Laetitia Avia’s lawyer, appealed against this conviction.

In total, Laetitia Avia was prosecuted for moral harassment of seven former parliamentary assistants. The alleged facts date from 2017 to 2020.

The former MP for Paris was also ordered to pay 2,000 euros to each of the four plaintiffs. Their counsel, lawyer Maud Sobel, felt that “the clarity and seriousness of the facts as well as the position of Ms. Avia at the hearing foreshadowed the sentencing decision”.

The prosecution had requested Thursday, June 1, a year of suspended imprisonment. The defense pleaded for release, castigating charges “contested and decontextualized“.