2023-12-20 13:18:18
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Investigations into incident surrounding AfD leader Chrupalla discontinued – Germany
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-12-20 15:29:11
Ingolstadt – After German AfD leader Tino Chrupalla was treated in hospital because of an incident at an election campaign event, the public prosecutor’s office has closed the investigation. Senior public prosecutor Veronika Grieser said on Wednesday that no evidence of a crime might have been identified. The AfD chairman criticized the decision.
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2023-12-20 15:48:01
PARIS (AP) — A prominent television host in France has been indicted on preliminary rape charges as authorities investigate allegations from regarding 20 women who have accused him of unwanted sexual conduct dating back decades.
Patrick Poivre d’Arvor denies the allegations and has sued 16 of his accusers. Poivre d’Arvor, a respected personality who hosted France’s most popular news program for more than two decades, insists the sexual encounters were consensual.
Prosecutors in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said Wednesday that Poivre d’Arvor was charged with preliminary charges of rape for alleged actions dating back to 2009. He was also named as an “assisted witness” to another alleged rape from 2004.
Both incidents affected the writer Florence Porcel, who filed legal complaints in 2021.
Under French law, preliminary charges mean magistrates have grounds to suspect a crime has been committed, but allow time to investigate further before deciding whether to send the case to trial. “Assisted witness” status also allows time for further investigation, which might lead to charges being filed or the case being dismissed.
The Nanterre prosecutor’s office reported that it opened two preliminary investigations in 2021 into numerous accusations once morest Poivre d’Arvor, including that of Porcel. One of the investigations, which included complaints from regarding 20 women, was closed and the other is ongoing, prosecutors said in a statement to the AP.
Poivre d’Arvor’s lawyers said in a statement that he “firmly contests the facts alleged by Ms. Porcel, as he has done from day one, and has provided numerous material pieces of evidence.”
Poivre d’Arvor was the star presenter of the TF1 evening show between 1987 and 2008, making him one of the most famous people in France.
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300 Animal Seizure: Animal Cruelty Raid in Chastre Prompts Urgent Call for Justice
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-12-20 14:10:00
Around fifteen animal shelters, the police, the public prosecutor’s office, vans… a big raid took place this morning on a property in Chastre and for good reason, since it involved seizing nearly 300 animals . Around a hundred dogs but also equines, horses, donkeys and ponies held in deplorable, undignified conditions, to the point where a dog was euthanized on site.
What is striking is that this is not the lady’s first attempt, far from it. She has been doing this for more than ten years: in 2011, 2013 and 2018 seizures have already taken place at her home, several dozen animals at each intervention.
Sébastien de Jonge, the director of ASBl Sans Collier was on site; asked regarding the repetition of these seizures, he explains: “In the eyes of the law, she has her detention permit, since no one has taken it away from her, the last seizures date from before the system, and at the level of justice there had been no ban on detention of ‘animals. As seizure is a principle which aims to secure animals – it is not a sanction as such – as long as there is no sanction behind it, the person can continue to take animals and we therefore finds himself here, at regular intervals, to take animals.“
And Sébastien de Jonge concludes: “OWe hope and expect a sanction, we must put an end to this.”
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