So I went to the original French article and... you actually left out the craziest, most horrific part of Elise's testimony (not criticizing, just want to highlight it, personally):
Elise was doubling over in pain from the urge to urinate, and even fell down with onlookers watching around her. The dude then offered her to urinate hiding in a construction site, she refused, and waited until she was back at the ministry to use the bathroom.
Except... it wasn't a normal piss. She had a serious UTI as a result (with borderline peritonitis) and was hospitalized for 4 days.
Another victim apparently could have had it even worse, because she already was undergoing medical treatment highly incompatible with the consumption of diuretics.
This motherfucker didn't just abuse and humiliate these women for his sick fetish, he almost killed some of them.
And of course the psychological trauma. Obviously these women didn't realize they had been drugged and some thought it was their fault, that they had lost control over their bodies, they were so humiliated that they lost confidence in themselves, some of them kept thinking back to this incident every time they had a job interview, etc.
Oh and also, there were already people ringing the alarm bell about this guy and his creepy behaviour years ago, and HR, senior leaders, and even police did absolutely nothing. I know, I know, completely surprising, huh.
He's obviously lying. He saw those women collapse in pain, and surely he was aware that some were hospitalized. Fuck him forever.