An American journalist, E. Jean Carroll, who accuses Donald Trump of having raped her in the 1990s, relaunched her civil lawsuit against the former president of the United States on Thursday, thanks to a new law in New York that protects victims of sexual assault. .
A double-court case for alleged rape and defamation has pitted E. Jean Carroll, 78, against Donald Trump, 76, in Manhattan Federal Civil Court since 2019, who entered sworn statements in October before a judge from New York.
In a defamation proceeding, E. Jean Carroll, an author and former columnist for Elle magazine, sued Donald Trump in November 2019. She accused him of defaming her by calling her a “complete lie” in June 2019, her allegations of rape in a New York department store. dressing room in 1995 or 1996.
Facts going back almost 30 years
The then-incumbent Republican president (2017-2021) responded that he had never met her and that she was “not his type of woman.” His lawyers have also always affirmed that he was protected in 2019 by his immunity as head of state.
Regarding the rape accusations, E. Jean Carroll had not been able to file a formal complaint in 2019 since the alleged facts were prescribed.
But on November 24, a new New York State law (“Adult Survivors Act”) came into force that allows, for one year, victims of sexual assault to reactivate their possible old complaints and claim a civil lawsuit.
Ms. Carroll’s law firm, Kaplan Hecker and Fink, and the federal justice system in Manhattan released several court documents Thursday accusing Donald Trump of “rape” in particular and seeking a civil trial in 2023 to obtain damages. interests.
In the preamble to the complaint, which is now admissible and which recounts all the facts, Donald Trump is accused “about 27 years ago (…) in the luxury Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in New York (from ) appropriating E. Jean Carroll, pinning her down and pinning her against a dressing room wall with his shoulder and raping her”.
Source: BFM TV
