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An investigation targeting Secretary of State Zacharopoulou closed
The French Secretary of State for Development, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, was prosecuted for gynecological violence. The court closed the complaints.
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Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is committed to the issue of endometriosis.
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The investigation which had been opened in May 2022, after the filing of two infringement complaints aiming Chrysoula Zacharopoulouthe Secretary of State for Development, has been dismissed, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday, confirming information from BFM TV. This investigation was closed at the end of March, for insufficiently characterized offense, specified the parquet floor.
Asked by AFP, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou’s lawyer, Me Antonin Lévy, did not wish to comment. Targeted by two complaints for rape, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is criticized by patients for the gestures that she would have imposed when she practiced as a gynecologist.
A third complaint was then filed in June 2022 for violence without incapacity for work by a person responsible for a public service mission. After the announcement of the opening of an investigation targeting her, the Secretary of State had dismissed the charges, judging them “unacceptable and revolting”.
Committed to endometriosis
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou entered the government at the end of May 2022, as Secretary of State for Development, La Francophonie and International Partnerships, to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in the government of the First Minister Elisabeth Borne. She was confirmed in her role in July during the reshuffle.
Elected in 2019 on the Renaissance list in the European Parliament, where she notably sat on the Committee on Women’s Rights, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is a doctor who has long been involved in the issue of endometriosis. In 2021, it submitted a report on the subject to the French government.
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Born in Sparta, she studied in Italy, before practicing in France, at the Bégin military hospital in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne), then at the Hôpitaux de Paris, in particular at Tenon in the service of the Pr Emile Daraï, under investigation for rape charges.
The latter, for his part, was indicted in November for intentional violence by a person in charge of a public service mission with regard to 32 suspected that the accused of having performed vaginal and rectal examinations in a brutal manner. and without asking for consent.
(AFP)