Mon October 20, 2003 09:31
AM ET
BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - A French judge was placed
under official investigation for "sexual exposure" in a
courtroom, prosecutors said on Friday, after a newspaper
reported the judge masturbated while a lawyer pleaded her
case.
The 39-year old judge masturbated for several minutes
on Wednesday while listening to a female lawyer addressing
the court in a case dealing with a dispute between
neighbors, regional paper La Charente Libre said.
One of the paper's reporters saw the judge "making
unambiguous gestures after discretely lifting his judicial
robe and opening his trousers," it said.
The judge was temporarily suspended from his
professional duties and examined by a psychiatrist, a
prosecutor in the southwestern town of Angouleme said. |
