The wife of the French diplomat accused of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter has sought access to her husband's bank account as she needs money to raise her children while her husband is in prison. In a letter to the French Ambassador, Suja-Jones Mazurier has expressed her inability to send her children to school as she has no access to her Indian bank account or her husband's French account.
“Two days after he (Pascal) was arrested and put in a VIP cell, my husband wrote a cheque of Rs 2,50,000 on behalf of his colleague of the Consulate, Mr Vincent Caumontat. However, when I asked about the money given to Mr Caumontat he shrugged his shoulders in response. I told him that I still had no access to my bank account in France. I could not send children to school without having access to my money. He asked me how much money I needed for the education of my oldest son. I told him that. He reiterated that "Pascal does not intend to stop you from using the money,"' writes Suja Mazurier.
“However, in reality he has changed the access passwords of all our accounts and hence I am left with no money to send the children to school. While my Indian account has only Rs 12,000 left,” Suja Mazurier added. She also mentions the trauma she went through during the police interrogation. 'On June 25, 2012, I was questioned by police for four hours without my lawyer. It was horrible because he asked me questions about myself and my close family and they accused me of many things. When it was over I called the Consul General and told him about the ordeal. He reassured me that the Consulate had nothing to do in this matter. So I wrote a letter attached to the Minister of Interior Chidambaram,' she wrote.
'Meanwhile, my children do not attend school. The kids and I have gone through trauma. It's not easy for a mother to press charges against her husband that she loves. This is the worst nightmare of living. I did it anyway because I want justice. I have to take my children for psychological therapy,' she wrote.
The French national's wife also raised questions about the treatment meted out to her. “I'll ask you frankly, Mr Ambassador, is all of France awaiting the results of DNA to see if my children have the right to go to school? Does the Embassy of France too, as the Consulate of France in Bangalore and all the French in Bengaluru, prefer to see if my husband is proven guilty before deciding whether my children and I have the rights that all normal family life like others?”, she said.