Host Sébastien Cauet, a figure on NRJ, is now the target of three complaints for rape and sexual assault, including the one filed on November 18 in Bourg-en-Bresse.
The host Sébastien Cauet, figure of NRJ, is now the target of three complaints for rape and sexual assault, including that filed on November 18 in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), we learned on Tuesday from a source close to the case confirming information from Le Figaro.
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The investigation was entrusted to the juvenile brigade of the Paris judicial police, one of the complainants being a minor at the time of the events, the same source added.
Questioned by AFP, the Paris public prosecutor’s office confirmed that it had received three complaints this Wednesday against the host, specifying that two of these complaints had initially been handled by the Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor’s office. These complaints concern acts of rape and sexual assault.
“Provisional withdrawal” of NRJ
The Paris public prosecutor’s office added that the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office remained “seized of the acts of harassment denounced by Mr. Cauet”. On November 22, the Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation for “rape of a minor over 15 years old and rape” after the filing of a complaint on November 18 for several acts of rape allegedly committed between 2014 and 2022, partly while the victim was still a minor.”
The host, who contests this accusation, had agreed with NRJ “by mutual agreement” on “his temporary withdrawal from the airwaves” of the radio. Sébastien Cauet then filed a complaint with the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office for attempted extortion of funds by an organized gang and slanderous denunciation, in response to the rape complaint against him.
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The complaint for two rapes was revealed by the magazine L’Obs. It was submitted by a young 25-year-old woman named Julie, who explained that the events had occurred during her adolescence, in 2014. She told BFMTV that while she met the host with the wanted to do radio, he had asked her for fellatio, which after an initial refusal she had granted him against his will.
The host has been a well-known figure in radio humor since his debut on Fun Radio in the early 1990s. At the peak of his popularity, he presented a late-night talk show on TF1 from 2003 to 2008. , “The Cauet method”.
2023-11-28 18:41:54
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