A former employee of the Assu 2000 insurance group (renamed Vilavi) filed a complaint on Tuesday October 10 in Paris against the general director, Amir Messadi, whom she accuses of rape in Morocco, a source close to the company said on Sunday October 15. file, confirming information from the Parisian.
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the receipt of a complaint for rape against the leader. This last “contests any rape or assault, which is falsely attributed to him”said his lawyer, Frank Berton.
The complainant denounces having been the victim of sexual harassment upon her arrival at Assu 2000 in August 2021, then having suffered four rapes.
Amir Messadi would have asked him “nude photos of her breasts and buttocks”, explained his lawyer, Anne-Claire Le Jeune. The woman, who requests anonymity, recounts four rapes, in Marrakech and Tangier. “It was clearly established that in the event of refusal, my client would lose her job”said Me The young.
His client had already filed a complaint in Morocco, where the group has branches, but Amir Messadi ” fled “ the country, said the Moroccan lawyer of the complainant, Me Aïcha El Guella. Contacted on this aspect, Me Berton spoke of “erroneous assertions”.
Trial in Morocco
This complaint adds to the Assu 2000 file, in Morocco and France. Tuesday October 17, the trial of eight other collaborators is due to resume in Tangier, notably for human trafficking and sexual harassment from 2018 to 2022.
In Paris, the former CEO of Assu 2000, Jacques Bouthier, has been indicted since May 2022, notably for human trafficking and rape of a minor. First imprisoned, he is now under judicial supervision for medical reasons.
Investigations in France began with a complaint in March 2022. A 22-year-old woman claimed to have been forced, as a minor, by her cousin to have paid relations with men, according to judicial evidence including AFP. had knowledge.
A minor for 10,000 euros
Among them: Jacques Bouthier, one of the 500 richest people in France. She accuses him of having raped her, of having “placed” in 2017 in an apartment in the Paris region, and of having forced him to have sexual relations with several men.
She also claims that Mr. Bouthier asked her about him ” find “ a minor, against 10,000 euros. She explains that she accepted to give him ” a trap “with the agreement of a 14-year-old girl: she filmed Mr. Bouthier in bed with the young girl, then gave the video to investigators.
For her part, during her hearings, the young girl claimed that Mr. Bouthier had forced her to masturbate, touched her private parts, then left 100 euros.
After this episode, the ex-CEO is suspected of having wanted to set up a team to recover the video and force the complainant to leave France. Seven other people are indicted, including his wife and a former GIGN.
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Mr. Bouthier defended himself. In December 2022, before the investigating magistrates, he only admitted to consensual paid sexual relations with the complainant, whom he believed to be an adult. ” I did not think [lui] make of bad “, he also declared during his indictment. The septuagenarian is also the subject of investigations in Paris for sexual harassment.