The elected official, indicted for “administration of a substance” in order to commit “rape or sexual assault” agreed to withdraw from his senatorial duties.
Published on 09/25/2024 6:51 p.m.
Reading time: 1 min Senator Joël Guerriau, during a meeting with the Lebanese president, February 13, 2020. (HANDOUT / TELE LIBAN / AFP)
Senator Joël Guerriau begins “withdrew from his functions”, franceinfo learned on Wednesday September 25 from those around Gérard Larcher. He will no longer sit “until further notice”. The elected representative of Loire-Atlantique “agreed to step down from his duties” in the Senate, such as that of secretary of the Senate and vice-president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces, specifies this same source.
The Senate president met with the senator on Wednesday and asked him to resign. Joel Guerriau “did not give him an answer”indicates Gérard Larcher’s entourage.
“I personally think that he no longer has his place in the Senate”Gérard Larcher said on Wednesday on France Inter. “It’s my wish, but I have no power on this subject”recalled the President of the Senate, specifying that “only the Constitutional Council, after a court decision, can dismiss a parliamentarian from his mandate”.
