2023-08-04 06:00:47
An endless fall and very bad timing. Jean-Charles Naouri, CEO and main shareholder of Casino, thought, thanks to an interview published on Wednesday August 2 in Pointhaving brought his vision and a kind of conclusion to the financial operation which will, by early 2024, cause him to lose control of his business.
The businessman said to himself ” iron “ of the agreement in principle signed by the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky (indirect shareholder of the Monde) and the French financier Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière to bail out and relaunch the group threatened in its very survival by a colossal debt of 6.4 billion euros. In short, an exit in good order after a catastrophic sequence for Mr. Naouri.
And now only twenty-four hours after this publication, the deposed boss finds himself overtaken by a completely different affair: an accusation of violence and even rape against his wife. For the occasion, Jean-Charles Naouri left one of his lawyers, Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, to be its spokesperson following the publication of a dispatch from Agence France-Presse. AFP has, in fact, revealed that Mr. Naouri was the subject of a judicial investigation opened by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office in June for rape and domestic violence, after a complaint filed by his wife.
“Complaint for slanderous denunciation”
The case is old. It dates back more than a year and follows the filing of a first complaint by Mr.me Naouri in February 2022, dismissed on August 26 of the same year. A second complaint was filed by the wife of the CEO in October 2022, with civil action.
“After the filing without follow-up of his first complaint (…) following the divorce proceedings initiated by Mr. Naouri, his wife used this last resort, which led us to file a complaint against him for slanderous denunciation”, a declared Me Canu-Bernard, Thursday August 3, by press release. Mr. Naouri’s lawyer goes on to explain that “the complaint with the constitution of a civil party [entraîne] automatically the opening of a judicial investigation” and that, from then on, his cabinet was waiting for him “serenely since the end of 2022”.
Jean-Charles Naouri married a second time in 2007 to an Israeli he met in Tel Aviv in 2000. The couple have been separated de facto since 2019 and have been in the process of divorce since December 2021. Ms.me Nauri, that The world was able to consult, mentions in particular a two-week stay in Saint-Tropez (Var), in the summer of 2020, with their two children, in a rental villa, during which she says she had suffered several sexual intercourse not consented, despite health problems that prevented him from having a serene private life.
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