The investigation for rapes opened after the complaint filed by a young man against Olivier Ubéda, the director of events for the far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, was dismissed on Wednesday February 23, according to information from Europe 1 confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
” Ranking. To everyone who supported me, thank you. Really. To all who reveled in this cabal, sorry”, wrote the 51-year-old communicator on Twitter on Wednesday evening. Mr. Ubéda appears in Eric Zemmour’s campaign organization chart as “events director”.
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that the procedure had been closed without further action due to a lack of sufficient characterization. An 18-year-old man who allegedly worked with him as an intern – which Olivier Ubéda disputes – has reported rapes, which began in the spring of 2021 and continued until the fall, when he was arrested. filed a complaint, according to BFM-TV. It was filed on December 9 and an investigation was opened the next day into rape. Mr Ubéda was then heard in open session on the 1stis February.
Olivier Ubéda is in charge of the organization and the scenography of the meetings. He also does the ” Voice off “ meetings of the far-right candidate. He had already ensured the communication of Eric Zemmour during the pre-campaign of the polemicist, around his book France has not said its last word. Former member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Olivier Ubéda is a well-known personality on the right, for which he regularly organized meetings, notably for Nicolas Sarkozy.