The plaintiff, in her forties, accuses him of having drugged her during an evening at the beginning of the week, after having flirted with insistence.
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The director of the Institut Montaigne, a think tank liberal, Laurent Bigorgne was placed in police custody on Friday February 25, suspected of having drugged a collaborator without his knowledge during a party, learned AFP and France Télévisions from concordant sources, confirming information from the Parisian.
As part of an investigation opened for administration of harmful substance, he was placed in police custody Friday morning at the police station of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, according to the prosecution. A source close to the investigation also confirmed his arrest.
Invited to the home of Laurent Bigorgne, one of his collaborators, aged about forty, filed a complaint overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, after an early evening spent in his company.
According to The Parisianshe reportedly told police that she suddenly felt ill after drinking a glass of champagne and went straight to a hospital where she was told she had symptoms of drug abuse.
According to a toxicological expertise of the complainant, still according to the daily, she is positive for MDMA, a synthetic drug from the family of amphetamines also called ecstasy.
Laurent Bigorgne has headed the Institut Montaigne since 2011. Created in 2000, this think tank of liberal inspiration, which brings together business leaders, senior civil servants, academics, regularly produces studies and reports, in particular addressed to the public authorities. .