Prime Minister has assured she has no record of allegations against newly appointed Solidarity Minister Damien Abad
The new Solidarity Minister of the French government, Damien Abad, has been accused by two women of alleged rapes, a suspicion that is clouding the new director of Elisabeth Borne and in particular one of the most notorious additions to this new phase of Emmanuel Macron to the Elysee.
Abad was the president of the Republicans in the National Assembly, so his jump to the government of a rival party was one of the key milestones on Friday’s list of ministers, which combined continuity with renewal.
One of the women filed a complaint in 2017, alleging that she had had sexual relations with Abad in which he allegedly engaged in non-consensual practices. The investigation into these events, which is said to have taken place more than ten years ago, has been closed without further investigation, according to the Médiapart portal.
The second complaint arrived on May 13 at the Observatory for Sexist and Sexual Violence in Politics, which turned over the testimony to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, as well as to Los Republicanos and La República en Marcha (LREM), Macron’s party, according to Franceinfo.
This woman confirms that in 2010 she passed out after a drink and woke up the next day in her underwear in a hotel room next to Abad and feeling “drugged”.
Damien Abad has denied the alleged abuses attributed to him and has assured in statements to Médiapart that all of his relationships were consensual. For now, neither Los Republicanos nor LREM have formally responded to the complaints they allegedly received from the Observatory.
The prime minister has admitted to media that she was not “aware” of the allegations against Abad, which she learned about in the press. Borne has stated that for now he only knows that the case is closed, but he has made it clear that he will not allow “impunity” in cases of abuse and that, if more data comes out or even the justices intervene, he will. act with ‘all consequences’.
Source: La Verdad
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