Sunday, May 29, 2011

France, resigns Deputy accused of sexual harassment

Another sex scandal sweeping France. After Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the president of the International Monetary Fund accused of harassment of a waitress, is the time of Georges Tron, Secretary of State for Public Administration, two women accused of harassment and sexual assault. Immediate consequences on the executive: Tron fact, as revealed by the website of the French weekly L'Express, has already submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Francois Fillon.

The prosecutor in the Evry has collected complaints from two women of 34 and 36 years, used municipal Draveil, a town on the outskirts of Paris, whose throne was mayor from 2007 to 2010. The Deputy Minister would propose the first approach to massage their feet with reflexology techniques and would then sexually assaulted.

The violence then would be the case for both a suicide attempt. Tron has denied any responsibility, he replied that the complaints are just a "personal vendetta". His lawyer Olivier Schnerb has already filed a lawsuit for slander. However, in Le Parisien, the former deputy minister had already stated that the incident inevitably posed the question of the resignation, regardless of its strangeness to the facts.

Tron was so willing to leave his post if the request had come from Fillon and Sarkozy himself. Request that arrived on time by the prime minister because the embarrassment for the government had become untenable. The note issued this morning by Matignon Palace states that the Secretary of State "Fillon informed of his resignation from the government.

The prime minister, in agreement with the President of the Republic takes note of this decision in no way prejudice the action that will be given justice to the complaints filed against Georges Tron, which disputes the facts. " Fillon, said in a statement, paid tribute to "courage and sense of responsibility by Georges Tron that this decision did prevail with the public interest.

This decision will allow him now to defend themselves in all freedom. " In his resignation letter to Prime Minister Fillon Tron Secretary of State should ensure that "will recognize his innocence battling allegations of two former vindictive employees: a license for embezzling public money, the other forced to leave his office for a misconduct.

" To take the place of Tron will be the Minister for the Budget and government spokesman, Francois Baroin. For the French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, interviewed by Canal +, that the resignation is the "right choice".

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