Patrick Bruel focused by two complaints, for sexual assault and tried rape, and for rape. These complaints – respectively filed on March 12 in Paris, and in 2024 in Saint-Malo – had been revealed on Wednesday March 18 by Mediapart, which additionally reviews the accusations of six different girls for sexual violence for alleged acts from 1992 to 2019.
Patrick Bruel assures AFP, by his lawyer, Christophe Ingrain, that he has “never sought to force anyone into a sexual act”. The well-known singer “claims to have never overstepped a refusal, never forced a gesture or a sexual relationship,” continued Me Ingrain.
The Mediapart article “creates a character and a system that never existed,” mentioned the singer’s lawyer. “On a large part of the facts that would be discussed” within the article, “justice has already ruled,” underlined Me Ingrain, referring to 2 investigations opened after the complaints of two masseuses and closed with out additional motion in December 2020.
The most up-to-date criticism was filed Thursday March 12 with the Paris prosecutor’s workplace by Daniela Elstner, present normal director of Unifrance, confirmed a supply near the matter.
“A need for liberation”
According to Mediapart, Daniela Elstner denounces a sexual assault and an tried rape in the course of the French Film Festival in Acapulco (Mexico) in November 1997. She was then an assistant to Unifrance, a corporation accountable for selling French cinema internationally.
“Her approach today is less a desire for judicial conviction than a need for release, for her, and for all the others,” defined her lawyer, Jade Dousselin, contacted by AFP.
Daniela Elstner “came to see me for the first time in 2019, in order to discuss, within the framework of the institution for which she was responsible, the emerging subject of #MeToo in France,” she mentioned. “At the time of understanding together the necessary and complex balance between the freedom of speech and respect for the presumption of innocence, she told me, with enormous emotion, her personal story.”
Another criticism was filed on September 30, 2024 with the Saint-Malo public prosecutor’s workplace, a second supply near the case confirmed to AFP.
The girl accuses Patrick Bruel of rape in October 2012, on the sidelines of the Dinard British Film Festival, the place Patrick Bruel chaired the jury, in line with the identical supply.
According to the investigation web site, this criticism led to the opening of a preliminary investigation for rape. Patrick Bruel has not but been interviewed by investigators, mentioned the shut supply.
With AFP
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