The Paris Court of Appeals confirmed on Friday the sentence pronounced in the first instance against former deputy La République in Marche (LREM) Laetitia Avia, six months of suspended imprisonment and two years of inelegability for the moral harassment of four parliamentary assistants.
The Court of Appeals, on the other hand, has reviewed the damages to the civil parties by the former deputy of Paris, who has become a lawyer after his defeat in the legislative elections in 2022, now 39 years.
Rocy of former collaborators testimonies:
In a Mediapart article published in May 2020, five former parliamentary assistants accused the one who was then a member of Parliament to undergo his collaborators, harassment and abuse of power.
The testimonies also mentioned words considered sexist, racist or homophobic that Laetitia Avia celebrated in exchanges with her team. The deputy, a macronist of the first hour, then brought to Parliament a bill against hate online, which was largely censored the following month by the Constitutional Council.
After several complaints, an investigation was opened in July 2020 and, two years later, the elected official who appeared before the court was summoned.
During the trial in the first instance, seven former employees, who had not filed a complaint, had testified extensively, describing the “verbal violence” and “the aggressiveness” of their former patron, sometimes through comments and nicknames in their origins.
Source: BFM TV
