The student committed suicide after accusing a Parisian elected official of rape in early 2021. sebra / stock.adobe.com
The family of Guillaume Tran-Thanh, a student who committed suicide after accusing a Parisian elected official of rape in early 2021 and whose testimony had sparked a #MeTooGay movement, has filed a new complaint for an investigating judge to resume the investigation, AFP learned Thursday from his lawyers.
His father “took note of the preliminary investigation carried out following his complaint against XAiming at the PCF elected to the Council of Paris Maxime Cochard and his companion, also PCF, Victor Laby, indicated Me Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon and Florian Borg in a press release to AFP.
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“Bias and prejudice”
The elected official disputed these accusations, which then sparked hundreds of other messages about sexual violence in gay circles. The student’s fatherconsiders that certain leads were dismissed too quickly, if not ignored, even though at the heart of the complaint, several elements obtained within the framework of the investigation would have deserved more in-depth study and attention, the investigation having finally, obviously, suffered from certain biases and prejudice“, continue the two councils.
“It therefore seemed necessary and legitimate to bring a civil action with the dean of the investigating judges of Paris.“, they announce, which was done on Wednesday. The complaint is for “intentional violence resulting in death without intention to give it“, specified Me Tuaillon-Hibon. The two lawyers ask any potential witness to come forward “preferably directly with the investigating judgewhich should be designated.
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“Guillaume’s family will not comment further at this stage and his father hopes that justice can do its job in the best possible conditions.“, they specify. Shortly after his accusations made on Twitter on January 21, 2021, Guillaume Tran-Thanh, 20, was found dead, hanged in his room on the Nanterre campus (Hauts-de-Seine), on February 9, 2021.
A first complaint was filed on February 18 and an investigation opened shortly after, finally closed on May 3, 2022. After Guillaume’s accusations on Twitter, the Communist Party announced that it had asked Maxime Cochard and his companion “to withdraw from all their responsibilities of the PCF Paris“. The mediation body of the Communist Party had recommended the reinstatement of Maxime Cochard after the closing of the investigation. This is still not registered with the Council of Paris.
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