François Asselineau was interviewed in the premises of the personal delinquency brigade. The leader of the Republican People's Union was placed in police custody on Wednesday 3 February 2021, reveals Point. Two former collaborators accuse the 63-year-old politician of sexual harassment, sexual assault and bullying. A complaint was lodged in Allier, and another in Paris. Also, a former executive made a report to the public prosecutor, as indicated in July 2020 by an internal party source, in the columns of the Parisian, confirming information from Release.
A preliminary investigation was opened on May 15, 2020 by the Paris prosecutor's office. In response to these complaints, the former candidate for the 2017 presidential election denounced a "tissue of lies and slander" and "stink balls" launched by a "dispensary" in order to'prevent his candidacy to the 2022 presidential election, precise Point. At the time, the former Paris adviser also assured that he would file a complaint for slanderous denunciation. Then, through a press release, François Asselineau said that the first alleged victim to file a complaint against him had done so out of resentment, because she would not have appreciated that his "CDD [was] not renewed".
"Special relationships and more than insistent "
In addition, around forty executives and officials of the UPR demanded the resignation of François Asselineau as leader of the movement – a function he has held for 13 years – through a forum revealed by Le Figaro on Saturday April 18, 2020. "Facts of exceptional gravity were brought to the attention of the members of the national office […] documents and testimonies indicating the existence of special and more than insistent relations on your part with regard to [collaborators], in the professional framework, who have been source of serious psychological suffering ", notably wrote the members. In vain. François Asselineau finally won at the last congress of the movement which was held in July 2020, with more than 77% of the votes.
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