Barely released from police custody, Patrick Bruel faces new charges. According to information from Mediapart corroborated by the AFP, two new complaints for sexual violence were filed against the 67-year-old singer and actor this Friday, June 12 at the Nanterre judicial court. The first complaint denounces an attempted rape and a sexual assault that occurred in October 2007, on the sidelines of the Reunion film festival, sponsored at the time by the father of Léon and Oscar. The second complaint alleges a rape and sexual assault that occurred in May 2012.
Patrick Bruel again accused of rape and attempted rape
According to Mediapartthe first complainant (Amandine, 45 years old, psychotherapist) would have met Patrick Bruel at the beginning of the 2000s. She describes moments “valuable” linked to “accès privilégiés” At concerts, plays or restaurants: “There was always one obligatory passage: his bed”, she explains. It was upon meeting him at a café in Reunion Island in 2007 that their relationship took a turn for the worse: “I open the door, he’s naked, he pushes me against the wall and tries to kiss me, I push him away, I leave”, she remembers in the columns of the investigative media. The second complainant, who denounces in particular a rape, did not wish to testify, specify our colleagues.
“We are only at the beginning of this affair”, confirms Me Jade Dousselin, the lawyer for the two women. “These complaints will be added to the facts to which the singer will have to respond. The testimonies are pouring in in number and there is no doubt that we must expect rapid and significant developments in this case likely to give rise to new indictments”, she continues.
Patrick Bruel: indicted in 4 cases, he cancels his tour
Contacted, Patrick Bruel’s lawyers did not respond to requests from AFP, details The World. Last Wednesday, Me Fanny Colin declared that he would participate “naturally to all acts of the investigation” and that he would stand “at the disposal of the judicial authorities”. Patrick Bruel, who continues to proclaim his innocence and still benefits from the presumption of innocence during the investigation, announced the cancellation of a large part of his tour.
Il a été placé en garde à vue Monday June 8, beforeªtre mis a degree two days later. It is targeted by four files : a rape in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 2008, an attempted rape in Brussels in 2010, a case of sexual assault and sexual harassment in Perpignan in 2019 and a case of sexual harassment in Ajaccio in 2019, recalls Le Figaro. The artist emerged free under judicial control, escaping the provisional detention required by the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office.
