2023-06-02 20:47:52
The French investigative newspaper “Mediapart” published an article today, Friday, under the headline: “On charges of rape and violence, the Lebanese ambassador escapes justice.” The newspaper talked regarding “scandalous” accusations once morest the Lebanese ambassador to France, Rami Adwan, and regarding the filing of a complaint by two young women to report acts of rape and violence on the part of the ambassador.
An investigation has been opened in France on suspicion of rape and deliberate violent practices, targeting the Lebanese ambassador to Paris, following two complaints were submitted by two former employees of the embassy, according to what sources close to the investigation reported on Friday, confirming information to the “Mediapart” website.
The first complainant is 31 years old, and in June 2022 she filed a complaint in which she said, according to the text of the police report, that she was raped in May 2020 in a private apartment belonging to Ambassador Rami Adwan, Lebanon’s ambassador to Paris since 2017.
In the complaint, the content of which was seen by Agence France-Presse, the complainant confirms that she refused to have a sexual relationship and resorted to screaming and crying.
And the woman who was an editor had reported to the police in 2020 that Adwan had beaten her during a fight in his office, without filing a complaint on the pretext of “not destroying this man’s life” while he is married and the head of a family.
She said that she had an “affectionate affair” with the ambassador, who used to practice “psychological and physical violence once morest her and insult her daily.”
The second complainant is 28 years old, and she formed an intimate relationship with the ambassador soon following she started working at the embassy as a trainee in 2018. She filed a complaint last February because, according to her, she was subjected to a series of physical assaults, which often resulted from her refusal to have sexual relations.
The complainant asserts that Ramy Adwan tried to hit her with his car following a quarrel on the sidelines of a forum for peace in Caen, western France, in September.
She also accuses the ambassador of trying to strangle her in her home by shoveling her face into the bed at the end of December.
In a comment made to AFP, the ambassador’s legal representative, Karim Belloni, said that his client “denies all accusations of assault of any kind: whether verbal, moral or sexual.”
He added that his client “had romantic relations with these two women between 2018 and 2022, punctuated by disputes and separations.”
When asked regarding this file and what it intends to do, especially since Adwan enjoys diplomatic immunity, the Public Prosecution Office in Paris said that “it is not possible for her to answer at the present time.”
For its part, the French Foreign Ministry said, “We have no elements regarding this case, which is being handled by the judiciary and covered by the confidentiality of the investigation.”
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