The judicial noose is tightening around Patrick Bruel. On Thursday, the plaintiffs’ lawyers confirmed the filing of three new complaints with the dean of investigating judges in Nanterre, validating a revelation from the online media Mediapart.
These complaints, recorded between June 25 and July 1, target two incidents of rape and one case of sexual assault on a minor.
Among these new testimonies, that of a woman using the pseudonym Stéphanie particularly attracts the attention of investigators because the alleged facts are not prescribed. She accuses the singer of having raped her in 2014, on the sidelines of an international poker tournament.
Other accounts include a 1992 sexual assault in New York on a 15-year-old minor, as well as alleged rapes in the 2000s.
Requested by AFP, Patrick Bruel’s advice indicated that the singer would respond to “these false accusations in the only relevant and appropriate framework: the justice system if it is informed of these facts.”
“Only the judicial authority is today able to establish the facts in a case constantly polluted by media noise,” they added.
