the investigation targeting the former head of Civil Security Alain Thirion closed without further action

A former collaborator of Alain Thirion had filed a complaint after Alain Thirion found himself naked in his hotel room in the middle of the night, on the sidelines of a ceremony at the Aix-en-Fire School. Provence, June 28.

The investigation into suspicions of an attempted sexual assault targeting the former boss of Civil Security, Alain Thirion, was closed at the end of November, franceinfo learned on Thursday December 7 from a source close to the matter. Contacted by franceinfo, the Paris prosecutor’s office clarified that the investigation had been closed on November 29 for “insufficiently characterized offense”.

At the beginning of July, a former colleague of his filed a complaint after the 61-year-old ex-prefect found himself naked in his room in the middle of the night, on the sidelines of a ceremony at the Aix fire brigade school. -in-Provence, June 28. The Paris prosecutor’s office then opened an investigation. Alain Thirion was interviewed on October 11 by the Brigade for the Repression of Personal Delinquency (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police. According to information from franceinfo, he then explained that he found himself locked in the corridor of the hotel where the Civil Security delegation was staying, after going to the wrong door during a nighttime awakening, thinking of going to the toilet. .

The ex-prefect did not know who was in the room

According to his version, almost blind without his glasses, and seeking help, he said he pushed the door of a neighboring room, which opened, without knowing who was there. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, the investigation established that the prefect suffers from very severe myopia and that he did not know who was in the room. The statements of the collaborator and the prefect also converge on this point. “It was obviously an expected decision given the total and manifest absence of an offense”, reacts to franceinfo Alain Thirion’s lawyer, Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard. However, according to her, “it is difficult to really rejoice given the consequences that this denunciation had on Mr. Thirion, both professionally and personally.”

“The treatment he underwent raises a certain number of questions which we will now take an interest in and to which we will seek answers”she finishes. Alain Thirion was suspended as a precautionary measure at the beginning of July from his functions as Director General of Civil Security and Crisis Management, which he had assumed in July 2019. A few days later, his functions in Council were terminated. of ministers, who replaced him with Julien Marion.