- 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.
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- 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.
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- One of the paper's reporters saw the judge "making
unambiguous gestures after discretely lifting his judicial robe and opening
his trousers," it said.
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- The judge was temporarily suspended from his professional
duties and examined by a psychiatrist, a prosecutor in the southwestern
town of Angouleme said.
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