Convicted of rape, Georges Tron is no longer in prison. He frolicked on Sunday, handing out “discreetly” handshakes, on the market of Draveil, this city of Essonne which he led between 1995 and May 2021, according to information from the Parisian. Thanks to an adjustment of sentence, the former mayor Les Républicains left the prison center of Health, in Paris, on March 29, under electronic bracelet, indicates this Wednesday his lawyer.
Georges Tron was sentenced on appeal on February 17, 2021 to five years in prison, three of which are firm, for rape and sexual assault in a meeting on Virginie Ettel, his former collaborator. The sentence of the ex-elected was accompanied by six years of ineligibility.
“He has revenge to take”
“He lives in Draveil, it is quite normal that he is seen in the streets of his city”commented on Wednesday the current mayor of Draveil, Richard Privat, who is also a very close and former first deputy of Georges Tron.
Even if he no longer sits on the municipal council of Draveil, his return leaves municipal opponents perplexed. “His release is by right, it is justice that speakssaid François Damerval, an elected EELV of the city. But we are worried about the place he will take in the majority, he has revenge to take.. In Draveil, Georges Tron still enjoys, according to him, a “great influence”. As proof, a few months after his imprisonment, while the Court of Cassation has not yet decided, Georges Tron continues to follow municipal files from his cell, going so far as to send letters full of directives read in the preamble to advice. municipal.
The “Georges Tron” affair has had many twists and turns. After being acquitted at first instance, the former city councilor was found guilty, with his former assistant for Culture, Brigitte Gruel, of having imposed touching and digital penetrations in November 2009 and January 2010 on a municipal employee, Virginie Ettel, under cover of plantar reflexology sessions. In its decision, the court emphasized the “moral constraint” exercised by the two defendants on Virginie Ettel because of her “subordination link” At the mayor.
Six months later, the Court of Cassation rejected his appeal, condemning him definitively. The instance had considered that the Assize Court had indeed “characterized” the different elements “constituting the offenses of which it found the accused guilty”, which Georges Tron contested. The latter moreover indicated in December that he wanted to seize the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) arguing that there remained innocent of the charges brought against [lui]».
a statement “for witness subordination” is still in progress, confirms this Wednesday the parquet floor of Evry. In this part, he is suspected of having put pressure on Virginie Ettel when she had denounced the facts of rape. A dismissal was pronounced in 2018 but the investigating chamber had requested new acts of investigation, relaunching the investigations.