DRAVEIL, France: A French mayor who continued to run his town near Paris from jail after being convicted for rape has been formally replaced following months of pressure and criticism from.
End of era for convicted French mayor who ran town from prison
Georges Tron resigned from his cell at the end of May after more than 25 years at the helm H. J. I. / AFP
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End of era for convicted French mayor who ran town from prison
Tron, a junior minister under right-president Nicolas Sarkozy, began serving a three-year sentence in February for raping a council employee who the court found had been pressured into sex
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A French mayor who continued to run his town near Paris from jail after being convicted for rape has been formally replaced following months of pressure and criticism from women s rights groups.
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By Victoria Bisset
image caption Not in Draveil or Anywhere Else a placard reads You can easily imagine, I m not the best placed to comment objectively on the decision of the court, began the editorial in a council newsletter in the French town of Draveil.
The author of the article was the town s mayor, a 63-year-old former minister who was recently found guilty of rape and sexual assault.
But despite his conviction, an appeal has allowed Georges Tron to continue to lead Draveil from his prison cell.
And many people are angry.
On Tuesday, a group of local activists held another protest in Draveil in the southern suburbs of Paris calling for Tron to be removed as mayor.
French mayor convicted of rape runs his town from prison
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Draveil, France: When the mayor of this Paris suburb was convicted in February of rape and sexual assault and sentenced to five years in prison, France’s MeToo movement claimed a victory.
Georges Tron had once been a government minister. Activists hoped his downfall and imprisonment would send a powerful message to others guilty of similar crimes.
Georges Tron in 2010.
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But more than two months later, the convicted conservative party mayor is still in charge, governing the town of almost 30,000 people from his prison cell.