Overview
- Investigators invited any person not yet heard to contact the OCRVP immediately and to join the case as a civil party if they wish, with hearings targeted for completion before the end of March.
- Authorities report 248 identified victims, with at least 180 already constituted as civil parties, and say additional women continue to come forward.
- Former Culture Ministry HR chief Christian Nègre is under formal judicial investigation by two examining judges on counts including administration of a harmful substance, violence by a person entrusted with a public service mission, privacy violations and alleged sexual assaults.
- Prosecutors say a spreadsheet found on Nègre’s computer listed 181 interviews matching a pattern in which women were allegedly given diuretics in coffee or tea, a probe launched after a 2018 complaint in the Grand Est region.
- Victims’ lawyers criticize the compressed timetable and demand full judicial expert assessments, while some victims have obtained administrative compensation and others were denied state protective status on the grounds they were not public agents.