Damien Abad accused of rape: a third woman becomes a civil party in the case against the MP

Damien Abad est de nouveau mis en cause par une femme. MAXPPP – Mylene Deroche

Cette femme accuse le député de l'avoir violé en 2011. Elle s’est constituée partie civile dans l’information judiciaire pour  "viol" et "tentative de viol" qui vise l’ancien ministre.

Margaux, 37, accuses the former Minister of Solidarity of having raped her in 2011. She is a civil party in the case. judicial information targeting the former minister of solidarity who contests the accusations, she communicated to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Thursday January 11, confirming information from ;Mediapart.

This person had already filed a complaint and obtained the opening of a preliminary investigation, closed in 2017, for the facts that she denounced and that she had told to AFP from 2018. 

" I don't want to leave the other two complainants alone, explained this woman. "She took the time to think, it’s painful for her, but she found the courage to do it and feels ready now", confirmed to AFP her lawyer, Me Carine Durrieu-Diebolt.

"A constrained relationship, marked by disrespect, injunction and insistence"

Margaux met Damien Abad in 2009, when she was vice-president of the Young Democrats in Paris. In January 2011, she met Abad one evening in Paris and they had a sexual relationship that was first consensual and then forced, marked by disrespect, injunction and injunction. rsquo;insistence".

The investigation targeting Damien Abad was opened for rape and attempted rape on June 21 after a preliminary investigation following the complaint of another woman, nicknamed Laëtitia, who accused the MP of having attempted to rape her during a party organized at his home in Paris in the first half of 2010. Another woman, nicknamed Chloé, became a civil party in the proceedings at the beginning of July.