Lawyer Alex Ursulet was acquitted on Saturday evening, November 15, by a Paris criminal court on charges of raping an intern in his Paris office in January 2018.
Before the verdict was handed down, defense attorney Alex Ursulet, 68, had repeated his protest of his innocence, and asked the judge to declare an acquittal on behalf of a. “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Alex Ursulet was charged with aggravated rape, primarily because the act was allegedly committed by “constraint” And ” shock “ by someone who abuses the authority given to him by his position.
“What I have said from day one is that I am innocent of the charges against me”on Friday repeated the famous figure in the Paris bar, previously associated with Jacques Vergès, who rose to fame and enjoyed particular professional success after defending serial killer Guy Georges. At the helm, Alex Ursulet scored: “Actually what I said, this is what happened”meaning, according to him, there was nothing, at least nothing sexual, between him and the then 25-year-old intern.
On Thursday, the reporter who is now a lawyer still described in detail the digital vaginal penetration, on January 30 2018 at midday, suffering in a state “amazed”while the two were alone in the office. Moments earlier, while having lunch together at a restaurant, he said the lawyer had questioned him about his intimate practices.
Friday, during an interrogation that lasted nearly five hours, was described as “exhausting” The Prosecutor General officially denied the chronology of the allegations: after lunch, he did not immediately return to his office but instead went to drink coffee with his colleague, then he found a journalist with whom he had an appointment. So, if he found himself alone with an intern in his office, “It lasted a minute, a minute and a half”.
Advocate General Philippe Courroye requested the detention of Alex Ursulet on Saturday afternoon: “The lies are on this side. » “There is no conspiracy”he said. That young woman “was indeed a victim of rape” carried out through digital vaginal penetration, “a kind of free reign”.
Philippe Courroye has punished him “feeling of impunity” from lawyers, to “dominant personality”who thinks for himself “protected by his magnificent armor”. After some time “persuasion” before his apprenticeship, he will be in a relationship characterized by “domination”before starting the phase “ownership”namely rape.
“I feel like your indictment has been written” before the debate, answered Fanny Colin, whose client had for a week put forward a thesis about a desire to harm her out of professional spite. To curse, “You need certainty to match” of the requested sentence, and in this case “There is more than reasonable doubt”he pleaded.
