Former UDI mayor of Paimpol indicted for aggravated rape – franceinfo

The former UDI mayor of Paimpol (Côtes-d’Armor) and elected opposition member Jean-Yves de Chaisemartin was indicted and placed “under strict judicial control” for “aggravated rape” on Friday December 10, announced to the ‘AFP the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc Nicolas Heitz, confirming information from the regional press.

The elected official was taken into custody on Wednesday by the soldiers of the Lannion gendarmerie company. The gendarmes were seized of an “investigation of the count of rape with the administration of a substance to the victim, without his knowledge, to alter his discernment or the control of his acts”, added the prosecutor.

At the end of his police custody, Jean-Yves De Chaisemartin was presented to the Saint-Brieuc prosecutor’s office on Friday morning and “a judicial investigation was opened against him on the count of aggravated rape”, specifies the prosecutor. According to the magistrate, these are “facts committed on November 5” in the “private sphere”.

Unhappy candidate for re-election, Jean-Yves de Chaisemartin, 42, mayor of Paimpol from 2008 to 2020, was beaten in the first round by his socialist rival Fanny Chappé in June 2020 in Paimpol where he continued to sit as an elected official in opposition.