Rape case against French budget minister dropped
(WorldNews France)

French prosecutors on Friday said they had dropped an investigation into claims that Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin raped a woman who sought his help in having her criminal record expunged in 2009. The Paris prosecutor’s office said a preliminary probe had failed to establish “the absence of consent on the part of the complainant� or that she was acting “under constraint, threat, surprise or any sort of violence towards her.� French budget minister questioned in......