France launches probe into intercourse assault declare towards 94yo ex-President d’Estaing

An investigation has been launched into former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing after a German journalist accused the ex-leader – who’s in his 90s – of repeatedly groping her after an interview in 2018.

French prosecutors determined to go forward with the probe on Monday, following a criticism from Ann-Kathrin Stracke, a reporter for the German public broadcaster WDR, alleging the statesman grabbed her behind a number of instances whereas posing for in his workplace in Paris after the December 2018 interview.

I used to be standing to his left, and whereas taking the photograph, he put his hand on my left waist earlier than sliding it to my bottom the place it stayed.

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In her criticism – which she dropped at prosecutors in March after an unbiased inquiry by WDR – the journalist stated he repeated the identical motion three separate instances as she tried to take away d’Estaing’s hand “a number of instances and with all [her] power,” however to no avail, including “I felt like he insisted.”

Whereas Stracke drafted a 13-page criticism on the behest of her employers as soon as she returned to the WDR workplace in Cologne, she says she determined to go public with the story after greater than a yr with encouragement from the #MeToo motion, saying “individuals ought to know French former president harassed me sexually.”

Although D’Estaing, 94, has but to touch upon the allegations himself, his workplace supervisor informed Le Monde the ex-president had “no reminiscence” of the assembly with Stracke.

D’Estaing served because the president of France between 1974 and 1981, and continues to take a seat on France’s Constitutional Council, which is tasked to assessment legal guidelines to make sure they’re in step with the nation’s founding doc.

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