She had already experienced the accusatory inversion when she denounced the photographer David Hamilton, she faced it again in the Patrick Bruel affair. Flavie Flament returned this Friday, May 22 to the RTL microphone on the reactions that her speaking out against the singer, whom she accuses of having raped her when she was 16, and against whom she filed a complaint – like several other women.
Faced with Thomas Sotto, the host castigated the defense of Patrick Bruel, whose lawyers notably mentioned a “Episode report and consent”. Flavie Flament, who had already said « sidérée » with these words, castigated them again at the microphone of RTL. “Can you imagine, for a minor victim, being told that she consented to the harm done to her? To the tragedy she suffered, which took its toll and ravaged her adolescence?
“This defamation is absolutely terrible.”a cinglé l’animatrice. Avant d’insister : “I never had consensual sexual relations with Patrick Bruel, I saw him once when I was 16, in this apartment [où elle affirme que le viol a eu lieu] and I only saw him again afterwards on my television shows.”
“When a victim files a complaint, we do everything to silence them.”
During her interview, Flavie Flament also denounced the « variation des faits » in the Bruel camp. “For a week, the defamation has variedshe estimated. We talk about an episodic relationship, it becomes a relationship over years, we say that we met during a vacation and then, afterwards, we are told that we went to spend our vacations together for years.
“All these versions of the story only denote a feverishnesspressed the host, when you have the truth […] we never change the version and we never go into overbidding.” Asked whether she will also file a complaint for defamation, Flavie Flament claims to be “en train d’étudier” with his lawyers “the possibility of activating judicial levers”.
As at several points in the interview, she described the attacks against her as symptomatic of the treatment of victims of sexual violence. “It is an illustration of what happens in all families and all institutions when a victim files a complaintexplained the host, we do everything to silence it and discredit it.”
“That’s how justice should regulate itself”
Flavie Flament a aussi été invitée à réagir à un article du Parisianpublished last Sunday and which gave the floor to people introduced like some of its “near” who would be “In support of Patrick Bruel”. A man presented as having « longtemps travaillé » with her declares in particular to be « tomb[é] let’s go” upon discovering that she accused the singer of rape.
“What she says today is the exact opposite of what she said a few years ago about her story with Patrick Bruel.”assured the man Parisian. “She spoke of it as a lovely adventure, those were her words.”he continues, going so far as to say: “There was never any question of coercion in his comments and if I have to testify to this in court, I will do so.”
« Je n’ai pas grand-chose à répondre »reacted Flavie Flament this Friday. “When you bleed, sometimes the pack is thereshe continued. I can tell you one thing: my loved ones, the people who are by my side, are not people who will speak anonymously. I speak this word publicly, my loved ones have the same courage as me. »
Evoking the “Liars” and the « diffamation » death “two people who claim to be [ses] nearthe host declares, there too, that the question “Justice must regulate itself” hi “They will have to account for their claims”.
