The companion of La France insoumise MP Ersilia Soudais, Damien Cassé, also an LFI activist and opposition municipal councilor in Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne), was placed in police custody in Dammarie-les-Lys (Seine-et-Marne). -Marne) this Tuesday followingnoon, following a rape complaint filed by his partner, indicates a source close to the case to Le Parisien. The police arrested him Tuesday followingnoon in Noisiel.
The elected official from Seine-et-Marne, who would be in conflict with her partner, filed a complaint once morest the latter in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Saturday March 2 in the evening. The facts denounced by the deputy in her complaint occurred on the night of February 29 to March 1 at the couple’s home in Villeparisis.
A flagrant investigation was opened by the public prosecutor of Meaux, “on counts of rape by a spouse, moral harassment, malicious telephone calls and psychological violence”, specifies Jean-Baptiste Bladier in a press release this Wednesday morning. Due to the victim’s parliamentary mandate, she was entrusted to the sub-directorate of the Melun Judicial Police.
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Contacted by Le Parisien, the defendant’s lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, ensures that his client “strongly contests the accusations brought once morest him”. For her part, Me Jade Dousselin, counsel for the 35-year-old elected official, welcomes “the great speed of justice in this case, which demonstrates, if necessary, that she took the full measure of the seriousness facts denounced. The latter now hopes “that all light will be shed in calm and respect for the secrecy of the investigation”.
Ersilia Soudais, 36, has been a deputy for France Insoumise in the 7th constituency of Seine-et-Marne since June 19, 2022 and was an opposition municipal councilor in Lagny-sur-Marne from 2020 to 2022. Daughter of the editor in head of Politis Michel Soudais, she stood out for her hyperactivity on social networks, as well as her critical positions towards Israel, in the midst of conflict with Hamas since the October 7 attacks.
She was attacked in 2023 by the president of Licra Alain Jakubowicz who inappropriately mocked her clothing in the hemicycle.
Also an activist in La France Insoumise, Damien Cassé is an opposition municipal councilor in Noisiel, in Seine-et-Marne. In September 2023, he showed his “support” to Ersilia Soudais onthen accused of anti-Semitism, and who said she was the victim of sexist harassment.
