PARIS, June 18 — Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing condemned yesterday the “grotesque” allegations of sexual assault made against him by a German journalist. Prosecutors last month opened an investigation after claims by reporter Ann-Kathrin Stracke that the former president,...
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing arranges a book in his office in Paris, February 11, 2016. — Reuters pic
Prosecutors last month opened an investigation after claims by reporter Ann-Kathrin Stracke that the former president, now 94, repeatedly touched her behind in his Paris office after an interview in 2018. According to Giscard d'Estaing, Stracke is “obviously someone who is trying to give herself a role, an importance which she obviously does not have and which I hope will be taken from her.”
In the interview, which came the day before the anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous radio appeal to the French in 1940, Giscard d'Estaing also took a swipe at the current president Emmanuel Macron.
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