{"id":41952,"date":"2026-05-08T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/L-ancien-ambassadeur-Eugene-Gasana-reconnu-responsable-dans-une-affaire-d-41952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:02:34","slug":"L-ancien-ambassadeur-Eugene-Gasana-reconnu-responsable-dans-une-affaire-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/L-ancien-ambassadeur-Eugene-Gasana-reconnu-responsable-dans-une-affaire-d\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019ancien ambassadeur Eug\u00e8ne Gasana reconnu responsable dans une affaire d\u2019agression sexuelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selon un communiqu\u00e9 publi\u00e9 par le cabinet d\u2019avocats ‘Liston Abramson LLP’, qui repr\u00e9sentait la plaignante, le jury a conclu que Gasana avait viol\u00e9 leur cliente et lui a accord\u00e9 5 millions de dollars de dommages et int\u00e9r\u00eats.<\/p>\n

Eug\u00e8ne Gasana a occup\u00e9 les fonctions de repr\u00e9sentant permanent du Rwanda aupr\u00e8s des Nations unies jusqu\u2019en ao\u00fbt 2016. Au cours de son mandat, il a \u00e9galement assur\u00e9 la pr\u00e9sidence tournante du Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des Nations unies.<\/p>\n

L\u2019affaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 intent\u00e9e par une Rwandaise qui \u00e9tait \u00e2g\u00e9e de 21 ans au moment des faits all\u00e9gu\u00e9s. Elle effectuait alors un stage d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 pendant que Gasana repr\u00e9sentait le Rwanda aupr\u00e8s de l\u2019ONU.<\/p>\n

D\u2019apr\u00e8s la plainte cit\u00e9e par le New York Post en 2019, la jeune femme affirme avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 agress\u00e9e \u00e0 deux reprises entre juin et juillet 2014. Le journal rapporte que Gasana l\u2019aurait d\u2019abord invit\u00e9e \u00e0 d\u00eener au Millennium Hilton Hotel, \u00e9galement connu sous le nom de One UN Plaza, avant de la convaincre de monter dans ce qui semblait \u00eatre une salle de r\u00e9union, mais qui comportait en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 une chambre \u00e0 l\u2019arri\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

La plaignante affirme que Gasana l\u2019y a viol\u00e9e. Selon le New York Post, elle n\u2019a pas imm\u00e9diatement signal\u00e9 les faits, craignant que l\u2019ancien diplomate ne lui porte pr\u00e9judice ou ne prenne des mesures contre sa famille au Rwanda. Le journal ajoute qu\u2019elle affirme avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 de nouveau agress\u00e9e quelques semaines plus tard, le 11 juillet 2014.<\/p>\n

Dans son communiqu\u00e9, le cabinet Liston Abramson LLP a indiqu\u00e9 que cette affaire avait n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 plusieurs ann\u00e9es de proc\u00e9dure judiciaire ainsi qu\u2019un \u00ab courage extraordinaire \u00bb de la part de la plaignante.<\/p>\n

Le cabinet a affirm\u00e9 que celle-ci avait d\u00fb faire face non seulement au traumatisme des violences subies, mais \u00e9galement \u00e0 ce que les \u00e9l\u00e9ments pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s lors du proc\u00e8s ont d\u00e9crit comme des tentatives de la d\u00e9fense visant \u00e0 attaquer publiquement sa cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 et sa r\u00e9putation, ainsi qu\u2019\u00e0 intimider d\u2019\u00e9ventuels t\u00e9moins.<\/p>\n

\u00ab Aucun verdict ne pourra effacer le pr\u00e9judice qu\u2019elle a subi \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 le cabinet d\u2019avocats. \u00ab Mais ce verdict envoie un message clair : m\u00eame les individus puissants peuvent \u00eatre tenus responsables de leurs actes. \u00bb<\/p>\n

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Un jury de Manhattan, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, a rendu ce jeudi 7 mai 2026 un verdict unanime d\u00e9clarant Eug\u00e8ne-Richard Gasana, ancien repr\u00e9sentant permanent du Rwanda aupr\u00e8s des Nations unies, civilement responsable dans une affaire d\u2019agression sexuelle port\u00e9e devant la justice am\u00e9ricaine depuis 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000074966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[7603,7605],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"contributors":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393}],"featured_image":{"id":4000074966,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1000028690.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1000028690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1000028690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1000028690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1000028690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1000028690.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000074966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41952"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41952"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}