Pierre Aidenbaum will have to explain himself to justice. The former assistant at the town hall of Paris will be tried for rape and sexual assault by the Departmental Criminal Court. He is indeed accused of having imposed sexual acts on a close collaborator between 2019 and 2020, a source close to the file said on Tuesday.
The investigating judge in charge of investigations on Tuesday ordered a trial for rape and sexual assault by person with authority, according to his accusation order.
The accused can call
Pierre Aidenbaum, 82, will also be tried for sexual assault by person abusing his authority between 2014 and 2015 on another woman who worked with him, according to the same source. On the other hand, he can call on this dismissal.
In September 2020, the city of Paris reported to Parisian justice from the possible facts of sexual harassment committed by Pierre Aidenbaum with regard to a close collaborator. According to elements of the investigations, the latter accused him before investigators of the delinquency repression brigade against the person (BRDP) of having at the end of 2019, then in February 2020, “taken the hand to put it on his Sex “.
She also claimed to have suffered kisses on the summer in the summer of 2020 on the mouth, friction from the bottom of the Aidenbaum stone on her private parts. This ex-collaborator finally denounced rape which would have occurred at the end of August 2020 at the home of the former assistant.
“A system of domination”
“We are relieved for our client that at this stage justice has granted her complaint (…), in a particularly painful case for the victims,” said her lawyer, Me Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon. “We will continue to assist him with absolute respect for his word, with the heart of avoiding any secondary victimization as much as possible.”
The other woman who had worked with Pierre Aidenbaum a few years earlier assured investigators that the ex-elected official would have multiplied acts with sexual connotation, “at least a dozen assaults”. “It is a whole system of domination that was highlighted by investigators and investigating judges,” reacted his lawyer, Me Moad Nefati. “My client did not file a complaint; It was identified by the investigators, who have hit the operation of the Aidenbaum system: a mechanism aimed at women from modest social classes to better exercise sexual violence, “he considered.
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Pierre Aidenbaum had been indicted on October 9, 2020. On several occasions, before the instructor magistrate, he challenged the facts. The one who was mayor of the 3rd arrondissement of the capital for twenty-five years and, after the re-election of Anne Hidalgo in July 2020, assistant to the central town hall in charge of the Seine, had first resigned from his assistant position , then from the Paris Council.
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