He is one of Eric Zemmour’s closest collaborators. The one we usually see in the background, behind the candidate, during his travels or his meetings. According to information from BFMTV, communications adviser Olivier Ubéda is the subject of a complaint for rape. The 51-year-old man is to be heard in the coming days by the Paris judicial police.
The complaint was filed on December 9, 2021, according to information from France Info, by an 18-year-old man. The plaintiff, who was a trainee alongside Olivier Ubéda, denounces acts of rape which would have started in the spring of 2021 and would have continued until the fall. The Paris prosecutor’s office immediately opened a preliminary investigation. The young man admits having had sexual relations with the communication manager of the candidate who has been convicted of incitement to hatred. However, he claims to have been manipulated without being able to oppose any sexual relationship, the complainant considering himself in the “grey zone” of consent.
“It’s not based on anything real”
In particular, Ubéda allegedly forced his young trainee to perform oral sex on him, which the accused disputes. The investigators of the judicial police have multiplied the hearings of potential witnesses in recent weeks as well as the expertise to ensure the veracity of the accusations made by the 18-year-old man. Before then summoning Ubeda to explain himself.
On Twitter, the close friend of Zemmour first reacted: “Working for Z: you are accused of rape […] The screenplay is pretty damn good. It’s not based on anything real. The media love it. Wanting to break what works. Dirty to prevent. Disgusting. Who is fooled?”
With BFMTV, Eric Zemmour’s adviser talks about “a set-up as we do in the countryside”, intended to disrupt his candidate’s campaign. In a second message published on the social network, Olivier Ubéda talks about “slanderous denunciation” and affirms that “sometimes #MeToo is just mytho”.
Olivier Ubéda had joined Eric Zemmour in September 2021 when the latter was not yet a declared presidential candidate and remained a simple polemicist. It was he who was in charge of organizing the signing tour of the former journalist of the Figaro across France. The two men had been introduced by a mutual friend, Erik Tégner, today at the head of the far-right media black book. Before taking care of Zemmour, Olivier Ubéda, a trained conductor, was in charge of public relations for the UMP in the 2000s. Then he took care of Nicolas Sarkozy’s meetings during the victorious presidential campaign of 2007.