All complaints for sexual violence against Patrick Bruel “will be grouped together with the competent Nanterre public prosecutor’s office because of the domicile” of the actor and singer, targeted by at least four complaints, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on RTL on Sunday.
“To my knowledge at the moment,” Patrick Bruel is the subject of four complaints in the Paris region, she said, without counting the one announced by the host Flavie Flament, filed with the dean of investigating judges in Paris, but of which the prosecution has not yet been formally notified.
“There are undoubtedly older ones, I don’t know if they will be taken up in Nanterre,” said the magistrate.
Three other investigations in France and Belgium
According to an AFP report, three investigations have already been opened in France and Belgium targeting the interpreter of “So look”, “Casser la voix” and “Place des grands hommes”.
On March 18, he assured AFP, through one of his lawyers, Mr. Christophe Ingrain, that he had “never sought to force anyone into a sexual act.” He “never overstepped a refusal, never forced a gesture or sexual intercourse,” according to his advice.
One of the current proceedings is being investigated in Saint-Malo for rape on the sidelines of a film festival in October 2012. Another complaint was filed in March in Paris for attempted rape and sexual assault. These latest facts, denounced by a person responsible for promoting French films abroad, date back to 1997, in Mexico.
On Wednesday, the Women’s Foundation announced the filing of two other complaints with civil action, with the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, “for sexual assault and attempted rape.”
These two women had already filed a complaint in 2019 and 2020, and are now requesting the opening of a judicial investigation, said the association.
A judicial investigation was also opened in Belgium, after a complaint registered at the end of March for an alleged sexual assault in Brussels.
