Lawyer Alex Ursulet, a figure in the Paris bar scene, was acquitted on Saturday evening, November 15, by the Paris criminal court that tried him for the rape of an intern in his office in January 2018. In his final words before the court retired to deliberate, the 68-year-old repeated his remarks. “not guilty”. If the judge considers that sexual intercourse has indeed occurred, then the judge states that the intention to commit rape cannot be proven.
“This is a cynical decision that requires a new trial”comments the plaintiff’s lawyer, Thibault Laforcade, called for an appeal from the public prosecutor’s office that could be made within ten days. This seems likely in light of the indictment of Attorney General Philippe Courroye, who demanded thirteen years in prison for Alex Ursulet, as well as immediate detention.
Although Alex Ursulet has always denied any sexual relationship with his then 25-year-old intern, one of his lawyers, Luc Brossolet, has changed his client’s defense, putting forward the hypothesis of a “unhappy dominant-dominant relationships where” the complainant initially returned of his own accord. And “more like twice than once if I believe the text messages”continued the lawyer.
This “game”Of course, “don’t leave unscathed” the reporter, who chose to leave the office by leaving the office the day after the incident. But when he committed to it, according to him, it was done on a consensual basis. And in this context, continued Mr. Brossolet, no one could show that to Alex Ursulet “suspected penetration” Who is“written on (This) dominant/dominated relationship »will not happen.
“Cooking rights”
To curse, him “requires sufficient certainty” of the requested sentences, according to Me Fanny Colin, another suggestion from Alex Ursulet. But here, “There is more than reasonable doubt”he pleaded. Alex Ursulet nailed “in the insult of ugliness, worse still in the insult of rape”added their colleague Edouard Martial, criticizing “avalanches are not evidence but gossip”.
Advocate General Philippe Courroye had previously delivered a very harsh indictment, starting with this brief opening: “There is someone in this room who is lying. Who is the trainee or supervisor? » Nearly three hours later, he clearly stated the defendant’s name: “Lies are on this side of the bar. »
“No conspiracy”young woman, then 25 years old, “was indeed a victim of rape”according to the judge, giving rise to a “a kind of free reign” carried out by means of digital vaginal penetration, behind closed doors in Alex Ursulet’s office on the afternoon of January 30 2018, after lunch at a restaurant where the discussion turned sexual due to lawyers.
To mediate this word with word, Philippe Courroye imitates a defendant who, he claims, has offered the court his own “contradiction” and his “inconsistency” and he has “singing slanderous songs”and the plaintiff, who later became a lawyer, “constant in his statements”.
He welcomed her decision to get involved “Way of the Cross of the Victims” by filing a complaint, he, the young apprentice, confronted a celebrity from the bar who was 35 years his senior, former colleague Jacques Vergès, a fellow traveler from the Gaullist right, who had become famous for defending the serial killer Guy Georges.
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”about the alleged rape that the complainant described in detail on Thursday, as well as her astonishment.
As for the delay of several months before the complaint, the explanation is as follows “very shallow”according to the judge: “Fear of being discredited in the profession”, “can not be trusted”, “burnt”.
