The time when Patrick Bruel electrified the crowds seems far away now. It all started in 2019, with the first complaint from a young masseuse against the singer and actor. Since then, the procedures have followed one another, drawing up a case which covers almost three decades: rapes, attempted rapes, sexual assaults and harassment are singled out. And in a dramatic twist on June 8: the 67-year-old artist was placed in police custody, which was subsequently extended. At the same time, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office announced the filing of two additional complaints against Patrick Bruel. Then, on June 12, when Amanda Sthers’ ex-companion had barely returned home after being placed under judicial control, two other complaints also appeared in the file. “They will probably be studied very quickly by the courts,” said Jade Dousselin, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, on BFMTV this Tuesday, June 16.
What does Michel Drucker say about Patrick Bruel?
The 65th Monte-Carlo Television Festival kept its promise for Michel Drucker, awarded a Golden Nymph honoring his entire career. A consecration that the host savored before having to face a completely different question, slipped by DH.net: that of Patrick Bruel. And on this ground, the host was as clear as he was cautious: “It’s a subject that I do not address”, he immediately warned, before specifying: “I will not talk about Patrick Bruel because, first of all, he would not like it.” Without completely avoiding the subject, Dany Saval’s husband nevertheless wanted to recall the links which have united him with the singer for many years. “He’s someone I knew from the beginning and for whom I have a lot of respect,” he confided. As for the rest, the host of Vivement Dimanche preferred to return the ball to where, according to him, it should remain: “And the rest is a matter of justice”, he concluded, putting an end to the discussion.
A famous singer believes that Patrick Bruel “must have pleased so many girls that…”
If the friend of the stars preferred to remain silent on the storm which fell on the interpreter of the Café des Délices, others were much more talkative, and clearly less measured on the subject. This is the case of Dave, who did not hide his skepticism in the face of the accusations targeting the artist during his appearance on the set of ABC Talk TV: “I think we have to make the difference between a rapist, which he is obviously not, and someone who perhaps thinks, that they are pretending to want to refuse.” The interpreter of Vanina continued in evoking the phenomenal success of Patrick Bruel among his admirers, suggesting that this could, on occasion, confuse the reading of certain situations. To hear him say, the artist “should have pleased so many girls” that misunderstandings could have arisen from this adulation. An analysis which should reassure the defenders of the conspiracy theory, but which risks making those who demand that the words of the victims finally be believed.
