French mayor jailed for raping a junior staff member allowed to keep running town from prison
A Parisian mayor, George Tron, has been allowed to continue the running of his suburb from his prison cell after being convicted of raping a junior member of his staff. The 63-year-old - who was conservative Secretary of State under conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy and is now the Mayor of Draveil, near Paris - was sentenced to five years in prison with two suspended in February. Tron was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a colleague after coaxing her into sex with a third woman using foot massages at his town hall office. He was found guilty by the Paris Appeal Court afte...