“In a few months, the prosecution had noted forty -one harassment against his former companion”, notes France Bleu.
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The former MP for Médoc Benoît Simian (La République en Marche then liberties and territories) was sentenced on Thursday, June 23, to eight months suspended prison sentence for harassment on his ex-partner with whom he is pending Divorce.
“In a few months, the prosecution had noted forty-one harassment against his former companion”, Relates France Bleu . He were accused of more than forty malicious actions, “sometimes two or three times a day”, between July and November 2020 at their home in Ludon-Médoc, of which he had no more enjoyment since a prescription conciliation.
The old elected official, aged 39, has multiplied the comings and goings to go in particular to the dependence of the house transformed into a parliamentary office. He was also accused of having parked on several occasions in front of the home, preventing the outings of his wife, for having launched himself in gardening and DIY work by cutting laurels or being delivered beams and Bags of large pebbles or to have urinated on the lawn. He was also suspected of having bathed in the swimming pool, before emptying it, passing through the hole of a catter. “It appears that these repeated actions were made with the intention of behaving as if he were still at home and to annoy” his wife, said the court in his judgment.
another investigation For harassment
Given these facts of harassment “perfectly constituted”, the Bordeaux Criminal Court also pronounced a new one -year contact ban, but did not follow the prosecution, which had required, in addition to the suspended prison, a three -year ineligibility sentence. The court did not retain this additional sentence, believing that “the facts were not committed within the framework of its parliamentary activity”. Mr. Simian will also have to pay 5,000 euros in moral damage and 1,200 euros in lawyers. He has ten days to call. In addition to this file, Mr. Simian is accused by a collaborator of having forced him to sleep in the same room as him and of having multiplied the intimate messages between the end of 2020 the beginning of 2021. The Bordeaux prosecution opened a survey.
Candidate for his re -election in the 5th district of the Gironde without having been invested by the presidential majority, the dissident deputy was dryly eliminated in the first round of the legislative elections, collecting only 3.68 % of the votes.