The latest scandal to rock French politics came less than two weeks after Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief and leading Socialist presidential challenger, was charged with attempting to rape a hotel chambermaid in New York.
This time the alleged perpetrator comes from Mr Sarkozy's own ruling UMP party. Georges Tron, the public works minister, was accused of indecently assaulting the female workers, aged 34 and 36, after offering them "foot massages".
A local prosecutor yesterday confirmed the women have filed formal sexual harassment complaints.
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"When I see that a little chambermaid is capable of taking on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, I tell myself I do not have the right to stay silent," said one whom the newspaper called Laura, a false name. "Other women are perhaps suffering what I went through. I must help them. We must break this omerta," she said.
"Monsieur Tron lifted my skirt and passed his hand in my knickers. I made no reaction, frozen by the fact I wasn't expecting it." Full story...
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