Justice had requested the waiver of parliamentary immunity as part of an ongoing preliminary investigation into rape charges. A unanimous decision of the office of the National Assembly was taken in this direction. It opens the way to a possible police custody of the deputy and former minister.
A week ago, Damien Abad himself said he was in favor of lifting his immunity. ” I wish to be heard by justice, like any other citizen, and under any regime whatsoever “, affirmed the deputy related to the Renaissance party.
If it does not prevent indictments, immunity protects parliamentarians from any coercive measure. Its lifting therefore makes it possible to place Damien Abad in police custody.
It is the public prosecutor’s offices which formulate the requests for waiver of immunity, which are then transmitted by the Minister of Justice to the chamber concerned, whose office only decides on the “serious, loyal and sincere” nature of the request and not on the bottom.
” The position of our group is constant: immunity must be systematically lifted when the facts do not concern our parliamentary work “Commented the patroness of the Renaissance deputies.
The day after the appointment in May 2022 of Damien Abad to the post of Minister of Solidarity, the newspaper Mediapart had relayed accusations of rape against him, dating from 2010 and 2011. These complaints had been closed, but a new complaint had been filed. end of June 2022, leading to the opening of a preliminary investigation into attempted rape targeting the minister, who had left the government the following month.
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(with AFP)