Sébastien Cauet indicted for rape and sexual assault | EUROtoday
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NOTnew stage in Sébastien Cauet's authorized troubles. Radio host Sébastien Cauet, faraway from the NRJ channel, was indicted in Paris on Friday for rape and sexual assault on 4 ladies, three of whom had been youngsters on the time of the alleged acts.
The former star presenter, who contests the accusations, has been positioned beneath judicial supervision, “ with in particular the obligation to pay a deposit of 100,000 euros” and to “follow treatment”, specified the general public prosecutor, requested by Agence France-Presse.
His judicial evaluate additionally implies that he “ regularly reports” to the police station, that he doesn’t enter “ in contact nor with the people who have filed a complaint or testified” and that he does not exercise ” certain activities to avoid the reiteration of the facts.”
When requested, his legal professionals, Xavier Autain and Simon Clémenceau, didn’t want to react. Sébastien Cauet, aged 52, a recognized determine on the radio for thirty years, was the star host of NRJ the place he stood out along with his trashy outings on the microphone… till his withdrawal from the air on the finish of November, within the wake of the primary accusations of rape.
Three of the 4 victims are minors
As requested by the Paris prosecutor's workplace, the 2 investigating judges indicted him by retaining the annoying circumstance of being a minor over 15 years previous for 3 of the 4 victims recognized.
The interval of the alleged offenses extends from 1997 to 2014. Thus, Sébastien Cauet is suspected of getting raped a 16-year-old woman in November 2014 in Geneva. He can be indicted for corruption of minors over 15 years previous dedicated between January 2014 and September 2016, to the detriment of this primary girl.
The host can be accused of getting raped one other younger woman, aged 15, in December 1997 in Paris. And of getting sexually assaulted a 3rd 17-year-old woman in December 2012. He can be indicted for rape of an grownup, born in October 1973, in 2011 in Paris.
Other ladies accused him of sexual violence. These information ” are not part of the referral to the investigating judge, due to their prescription,” explained the prosecution. Maître Anne-Claire Le Jeune, lawyer for two of them, however welcomed the opening of a judicial investigation. She ” will make it attainable to determine the truth of the information denounced”, even if ” sure information will not be coated […] because of the prescription.
The host defends himself
In this case, Sébastien Cauet claims to be the sufferer of cyberharassment, slanderous denunciation and tried extortion. He filed a grievance, resulting in the opening of two preliminary investigations in Nanterre, for which he was heard on the finish of 2023. The affair broke out in November, with a primary grievance.
NRJ then introduced the “ temporary withdrawal” of its presenter, whereas his presence on the air constituted 44% of the every day radio viewers. The weekly present C’Cauetbegan in 2010 (with an interruption in 2017-2018), has subsequently stopped.
And as a result of he was unable to return, Sébastien Cauet demanded compensation. At the start of May, the Paris industrial courtroom dismissed the case.
https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sebastien-cauet-mis-en-examen-pour-viols-et-agression-sexuelle-24-05-2024-2561100_23.php