Historian François Durpaire indicted for rape

Historian François Durpaire, consultant on BFM-TV, was indicted on Thursday 1^er September for rape after the complaint filed by an ex-girlfriend, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Sunday, September 4, confirming information from the Parisian.

The academic, who judges the charges “unfounded” according to his lawyer, was placed under judicial control. According to a source familiar with the matter, who confirmed the information of the Parisianthe facts denounced by the complainant, who had a brief relationship with Mr. Durpaire, allegedly took place in May 2011. She claims to have been raped when she came to ask him for an explanation, writes the daily.

“Financial transactions”

In 2020, the two former lovers would have met again and would have “agreed on a financial transaction” of 60,000 euros but the woman would have changed her mind and would then have filed a complaint, continues the newspaper.

Contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP), Mr. Durpaire’s lawyer, Dorothée Bisaccia-Bernstein, felt that the opening of this judicial investigation offered her client “the opportunity to express oneself in a contradictory way in the face of these accusations”and argued that the investigating judges considered “that he was trustworthy enough to impose a fairly light judicial review on him”.

“It is normal and legitimate for the voice of women to be heard, but it is also legitimate for an investigation to be opened to allow the manifestation of the truth”she added.

The World with AFP