The testimonials multiply. A new complaint has been filed against former French chief Jacques Bouthier and his collaborators in Morocco, for “sexual harassment”, and a seventh suspect, a French national, has been taken into police custody, the plaintiffs’ lawyers announced on Saturday.
“In total, seven complaints have been filed against (Jacques) Bouthier and his accomplices. The victims have decided to violate the law of silence and others will also follow,” Me Abdelfattah Zahrach told AFP during a press conference in Tangier (Paris). . North of the country). Until today, six Moroccans had filed a complaint.
“A seventh suspect of French nationality has been taken into police custody. He will be presented during the day (Saturday, editor’s note) before the king’s attorney general,” said Aïcha El Guella, a lawyer and president of the Moroccan Association for Rights of the Victims (AMDV) that organized the press conference.
“organized criminal gang”
On July 6, five employees of Jacques Bouthier were arrested following complaints from former employees of branches of the Assu 2000 group (renamed Vilavi) in Tangier (north). A sixth defendant was released.
In particular, they are accused of “human trafficking”, “sexual harassment”, “indecent assault” and “verbal and moral violence”, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers.
The alleged events occurred between 2018 and April 2022 in Moroccan subsidiaries of the brokerage giant in France.
“Jacques Bouthier and his collaborators are in fact an organized criminal gang,” Me El Guellaa told me on Saturday.
The ongoing investigation “will reveal other victims and other accomplices,” he said.
“The Nightmare Continues”
Several whistleblowers reported systematic sexual harassment, threats and intimidation within the French company in Tangier.
During the press conference, the young women – declaring on condition of anonymity, their identity protected by dark glasses – denounced a “campaign of intimidation in the media and on social networks” carried out by “the Bouthier clan”.
“The nightmare continues, they threatened us, insulted us and even tried to bribe us, but without success!” Said one of them.
Jacques Bouthier, a wealthy 75-year-old businessman, was charged in May in Paris following a preliminary investigation opened in mid-March, along with five other people, in particular for human trafficking and child rape.
Source: BFM TV
