性的被害主張の女性、アンドルー英王子を非難　ＢＢＣの番組で

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】性的搾取を目的とした未成年少女の人身取引の疑いで逮捕され勾留中に死亡した米富豪ジェフリー・エプスタイン被告の被害者で、英国のアンドルー王子と性行為を強要されたと訴えている米国のバージニア・ジュフリー（旧姓ロバーツ）さんは、2日に放送された英BBCのインタビューで、王子が「ばかげた言い訳」をしていると非難した。（写真は英国のアンドルー王子）
　ジュフリーさんのインタビューは、先にＢＢＣで放送されたアンドルー王子のインタビューの前に収録されたもの。そのインタビューでエプスタイン被告との交友関係を釈明したアンドルー王子は強い反発を受け、公務から退く意向を示している。
　しかしジュフリーさんは、王子が自分の腰に手を回した写真が本物でない可能性があるという王子を支持する向きが展開した主張を否定し、英国民に自身への支持を求めた。
　ジュフリーさんはＢＢＣの番組パノラマで「内部にいる人は彼の腕が長くなっているとか、写真が修正されているなどというばかげた言い訳を常に見つけてくる」と主張。「そんなのはでたらめだ。彼は何があったか知っているし、私も何があったか知っている。そして私たちのうち一人だけが真実を述べている」と話した。
　アンドルー王子自身、批判を受けた先のインタビューの中で写真の信ぴょう性を疑問視。「あの写真が修正されているかいないか誰も証明できない」と述べていた。
　ジュフリーさんは１７歳の時に人身売買されエプスタイン被告の友人との性行為を強要されたと訴えている。２００１年にロンドンに連れてこられ、アンドルー王子と、当時エプスタイン氏の交際相手だった、ギレーヌ・マックスウェル氏に引き合わされたという。
　ナイトクラブでアンドルー王子と踊った後、マックスウェル氏から「私がジェフリー（エプスタイン被告）にするのと同じことをアンドルーにするのよ」と言われて気分が悪くなったと、ジュフリーさんは当時のことを語った。
　エプスタイン被告は性的搾取を目的とした未成年少女の人身取引の疑いで逮捕され、勾留中の今年８月にニューヨークの刑務所で死亡した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/12/03-10:42）

An American woman who claims she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew criticised the royal's ridiculous excuses in an interview to be broadcast Monday.
The interview was recorded before Andrew's own BBC interview, which prompted him to stand down from public duties because of a backlash at his defence of his friendship with Epstein.
But Virginia Giuffre called on the British public to support her as she dismissed claims initially made by the prince's backers that a photograph apparently showing him with his arm around her might not be genuine.
The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored, she told the BBC's Panorama programme.
I'm calling BS (bullshit) on this. He knows what happened, I know what happened. And there's only one of us telling the truth, she said in clips released in advance.
Andrew himself doubted the authenticity of the photograph during his badly-received interview, saying nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored.
Giuffre has alleged she was trafficked to have sex with friends of Epstein when she was 17. Epstein was found dead in a New York prison in August awaiting sex trafficking charges.
She accused Epstein of bringing her to London in 2001, where she was introduced to Andrew and disgraced financier Epstein's socialite girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
She said the prince asked her for a dance at a nightclub, telling Panorama he was the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life.
His sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere, she added.
I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would have expected from me.
- 'Ill-judged' friendship -
The prince told the BBC that he did not remember the photograph with Giuffre being taken.
He also said he was unable to sweat at the time due to a medical condition he developed after serving as a helicopter pilot in the Falklands War in 1982.
After the nightclub, Giuffre -- then known as Roberts -- said that Maxwell told her: I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick.
She and Queen Elizabeth II's second son later had sex at Maxwell's house in central London, she alleged.
Andrew, 59, said he did not remember meeting Giuffre and that he absolutely and categorically did not have sex with her.
Giuffre said in her interview: I implore the people in the UK to stand up beside me, to help me fight this fight, to not accept this as being OK.
This is not some sordid sex story. This is a story of being trafficked, This is a story of abuse and this is a story of your guys' royalty.
After his BBC interview, Andrew issue statement in which he said I ... unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein and deeply sympathise with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure.
A statement from Buckingham Palace said they emphatically denied that The Duke of York (Andrew) had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts.
Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation, it added.