US EditionFormer French senator found guilty of drugging lawmaker to assault her
Joël Guerriau received a four-year sentence with 30 months suspended, a five-year electoral ban, and must pay €9,000 in damages after being convicted of drugging a lawmaker to assault her.
- On Jan 27, a Paris court found Joël Guerriau, former French senator, guilty of drugging National Assembly MP Sandrine Josso with MDMA to sexually assault her and sentenced him to four years, with 18 months behind bars.
- In November 2023, at his Paris apartment, Guerriau served champagne Josso said tasted 'sweet and sticky'; prosecutors said he deliberately placed MDMA while Guerriau said he prepared it for himself and accidentally served her.
- Toxicology reports showed Sandrine Josso ingested MDMA far above recreational levels and ecstasy was found at Guerriau's flat, while her lawyer Arnaud Godefroy said she faced `Six months off work, physical treatment, psychological and psychiatric follow-up, nightmares, flashbacks, dissociation`.
- Guerriau's legal team said he will appeal, placing the sentence on hold, while the court ordered psychiatric treatment, banned contact with Sandrine Josso, and fined him �9,000 .
- The trial echoes the Pelicot case and amplifies scrutiny of drug-facilitated abuse as France's October 2025 law change redefined rape amid broader public debate on consent.
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On Tuesday night, the Court of Paris handed down a sentence that resonates with the Gisèle Pelicot case. Judges sentenced former French senator Joël Guerriau to four years in prison (with two and a half unconditional years) for having given MDMA without his consent to the macronist deputy Sandrine Josso with the aim of sexually assaulting her. Despite the seriousness of the events, this member of the Horizons party of former Prime Minister Édoua…
The former Senator Joel Guerriau was sentenced on March 4 years in prison, of which 18 months with execution, for the drug use of Mr. Sandrine Josso. The court's judgment in Paris marks a symbolic moment in the fight against "chemical substantiation", a central issue in...
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