#MeToo : Ariane Fornia, the daughter of Eric Besson accuses the ex-minister Pierre Joxe of sexual assault – Gala

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After having long hesitated to speak, Ariane Fornia, the daughter of Eric Besson, has taken the floor on a blog and in the magazine l’express. It accuses the former minister of François Mitterrand, Pierre Joxe, to have sexually assaulted when she was 20 years old.

Party of Hollywood, the scandal of the sexual abuse starts to take on an unexpected dimension. After the world of cinema, the denunciations begin to touch that of the policy and the last charge date is not the least. It comes straight from the young Ariane Fornia, the daughter of the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, Eric Besson. Through an article published Wednesday on a blog, the young woman of 28 years old admit to have been victim of various sexual assaults. One of them would have been the result of a former prominent political figure. The magazine l’express, she confirms that it is of Pierre Joxe, lawyer at the Paris bar, former Member of the constitutional Council and Minister of the Interior and Defense under Francois Mitterrand.

About this assault, Ariane Fornia says: “This is not the ‘worst’, but one that has me intellectually the most shaken. “The scene took place in the course of 2010, at a time when the father of the young woman was still Immigration minister. A guest at the Opera Bastille, then 20 years old, she witnessed the first act without his father, detained elsewhere for professional reasons. She is then seated in ” the row the most exposed, where it also sees well that one is seen “. “An old gentleman with the air eminently respectable sits to my right, she says. His wife is at his right hand to him. I insist. His wife is there. The representation begins. And at the end of ten minutes, the old man has his hand on my thigh.” Ariane Fornia then describes the assault repeated his neighbour. She struggles, pushes a muffled cry and explains to have to go up to plant her nails into the hand of his assailant to dissuade him. “Struggle is a silent, grotesque, in the opera Bastille. “

At the intermission, Ariane Fornia finally discovered the identity of his attacker. “A great figure of the left, decorated with the national Order of merit and several other Orders of europe. A living statue“, she said about the former Premier president of the Court of auditors. She then decides to be silent and not tell her ordeal to her father’s returning from the evening. “I will return to loop what just happened. I am the daughter of a minister, in the row VIP of one of the most exclusive of the capital, in full light. The man sitting next to me has held the highest functions of the State, is universally respected, and accompanied by his wife. And he assaulted me for the entire first act, in spite of my resistance strong. “The shock is such that the young victim will keep silence for eight years. At the finish of the movement #MeToo, she finally decides to speak. Initially, it does not reveal the name of his aggressor, but, contacted by the Express, is concerned that it ” begins to suspect all the former ministers of François Mitterrand “. This is what finally pushes to confirm the identity of the man who has been traumatized. She sends him the following message today: “he knows that I despise deeply, and I pity his wife“.

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