The Joël Guerriau affair is growing. The senator, suspected of having drugged in November 2023 the deputy Sandrine Josso in order to commit sexual assault, is targeted by a new testimony against him, relayed Thursday, June 19 by the program Additional investigation on France 2.
In his investigation on the behind the scenes of the Senate, whose channel unveiled a part on social networks, France 2 returns to the case which led the prosecution to require in April a lawsuit against the senator, suspected of having drugged his unwitting his colleague deputy during an evening in his Parisian apartment, which he denies voluntarily, advancing in particular a “Manipulation error”.
The report released Thursday evening relaying in particular the testimony of a woman speaking facing the camera but with a covered face, with the sound of her modified voice. She claims that Joël Guerriau would have “Abused” from her after an evening spent at the Parisian home of the Loire-Atlantique senator in May 2022. She said she had had “The spinning head”then having resumed her minds in the senator’s room, whom she knew of the political community and with which she would have had a judicial dispute. “I decided to bury it deep in my being”she said again, explaining that she had a click when he heard about the November 2023 affair.
The teams of Additional investigation Affirm that this woman contacted the investigators to testify but that she has not filed a complaint for the moment. Solicited by the show, the senator’s lawyer said that Mr. Guerriau “Drunk [ait] with the greatest firmness these new rumors »qualifying them as“The sole objective of leading Joël Guerriau to the scaffold of public opinion”.
Since his indictment, the parliamentarian, placed under judicial supervision, had been suspended from his Horizons party and his parliamentary group the independents-republic and territories. He had said he wanted “Preserve the serenity” of the Senate by putting itself “Return to participation in parliamentary work”»but had excluded to resign, estimating in September 2024 “Totally unfair” to leave office when justice had not yet “slice”.
