The prosecutor’s office filed an appeal on Monday, November 17, after lawyer Alex Ursulet was acquitted by the Paris criminal court, which tried him for the rape of an intern in his office in January 2018, he told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The Paris lawyer figure, 68, was released on Saturday evening due to doubts. In his request, the Attorney General, Philippe Courroye, has asked for a criminal prison sentence of thirteen years.
If the court finds that there is “act of sexual penetration”He “have doubts about criminal intent” by Alex Ursulet: messages sent to a young woman who was 25 years old at the time, after the incident and the next day, left “assumes that he is not aware that he has committed a disgraceful act”. However, to be convicted under French criminal law, the alleged perpetrator must have a conscious desire to commit a crime or misdemeanor.
A “cynical decision”
To curse, him “requires sufficient certainty” of the requested punishment, requested Me Fanny Colin, lawyer Alex Ursulet. But here, “There is more than reasonable doubt” out of guilt, he estimated. The lawyer continued to proclaim his innocence of the facts alleged against him, behind the closed doors of his office on the afternoon of January 30, 2018.
After the announcement of acquittal by the criminal court, the plaintiff’s attorney, Me Thibault Laforcade, has denounced a “cynical decision”and request an appeal from the public prosecutor’s office.
