First eight women, in mid-March, and now twelve: testimonies accusing Patrick Bruel of sexual violence are multiplying, six years after the opening of the first investigations for harassment, exhibition or sexual assault. They were dismissed in 2021.
In the magazine “Elle” on Monday April 13, four women, two of whom filed a complaint, denounce the actions of the star of French song. The events allegedly took place in the early 2000s for three of them and in 2015 for the last young woman.
Edifying testimony
The testimony of Ophélie Fajfer, who was then 19 years old, is particularly edifying. She would have met Patrick Bruel in 2015 on the set of the Enfoirés music video in Montpellier. After exchanges on Facebook, she went to her property in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, in the south of France.
According to her account, the artist kissed her forcibly, sucking her tongue as she pushed him away. He then allegedly “penetrated her with a finger” and “sucked her breast very hard.” “To avoid the worst, and in order to protect myself, I had to masturbate him so that he would calm down,” she relates.
The other cases
Another woman, a cultural journalist, speaks of a sexual assault that occurred in a hotel room rented by Patrick Bruel in 2000. Two other women, then employed in the singer’s label, report sexual violence suffered in his dressing room or his room.
During the Mediapart revelations in mid-March, Patrick Bruel assured that he had “never sought to force anyone into a sexual act”. The famous singer “claims to have never overstepped a refusal, never forced a gesture or a sexual relationship,” wrote his lawyer.
To this day, Patrick Bruel remains presumed innocent.
