the Cahors prosecutor will be tried for domestic violence

The public prosecutor of Cahors (Lot) must appear next June before the Montauban criminal court for domestic violence, France Bleu Périgord and franceinfo revealed on Saturday.

Alexandre Rossi, the public prosecutor of Cahors – still in office to this day according to our information – is suspected of domestic violence against his wife. She was the one who filed a complaint several times in early April. The couple is in the process of separating and according to her, the violence occurred in this context of separation. Alexandre Rossi’s wife speaks of psychological violence and, on a few occasions, physical violence.

Alexandre Rossi was therefore placed in police custody on Monday and Tuesday in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. He could not be in his department, the law not allowing it. During this custody, the prosecutor was interviewed at length by the gendarmes, and confronted by his wife before being presented to the public prosecutor of Montauban and placed under judicial supervision. While waiting to be judged next June before the Montauban court, Alexandre Rossi is subject to an obligation of care and does not have the right to go to his partner’s home. According to our information, the magistrate wanted, in turn, to file a complaint against her, also for violence.

When contacted, the person declined to comment on the matter. The public prosecutor of Agen, to whom the Cahors public prosecutor’s office depends, specifies that Alexandre Rossi is in office but that he is not at work because he has been on leave since last Monday. At this time, the Superior Council of the Judiciary has not been notified by the Ministry of Justice of any disciplinary procedure concerning this accused prosecutor. Requested on Saturday, the Chancellery said it had urgently initiated a disciplinary analysis phase before making a decision concerning the prosecutor.

Aged around forty, father of a family, Alexandre Rossi has been a prosecutor in Cahors since January 2022. He is also the author of two books. The most recent, published last fall, discussed the functioning of justice and various themes, including domestic violence.