US EditionFormer French senator found guilty of drugging 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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He drugged a French MP in order to sexually abuse her.
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...
He himself voted in favour of the law in 2018, and now he is being sentenced to exactly that: a former French senator must be detained for four years because he mixes a colleague Ecstasy in the champagne in order to rape her later.
A French court on Tuesday found former French senator Joel Guerriau guilty of drugging MP Sandrine Jossa with ecstasy without her knowledge in 2023, with the intention of sexually assaulting her. He was sentenced to four years in prison, 18 months of which he will serve behind bars, the French news agency AFP reported.
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