Two new complaints have been filed against French singer and actor Patrick Bruel, already indicted for rape and sexual assault, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said on Tuesday, confirming information from the site Mediapart.
These complaints, for sexual assault and rape, were filed on July 16 and 23 with the first district of the Paris judicial police.
The 67-year-old artist has been indicted (indicted) since mid-June in four cases and placed under the status of assisted witness in four others.
The four investigating judges in charge of the case are also seized of acts of sexual violence denounced by several other women which seem, a priori, prescribed.
Since his indictment, at least six new complaints have been filed against him for acts of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault, committed between September 1992 and 2014.
Added to the two other complaints for rape and sexual assault revealed by Mediapart Tuesday.
Elise, who did not wish to give her last name, denounces a rape which allegedly took place in 1994, when she was 19 years old and worked as a receptionist in a luxury hotel in Toulouse, in the southwest of France, where Patrick Bruel regularly stayed, according to the complainant.
A “blackout”
She explains that the singer invited her to attend his concert and then to a dinner with his team after the show. During dinner, the singer lent him a sweater.
The next day, the complainant claims that he asked her to bring him the item of clothing. Once in her hotel room, the complainant told Mediapart having suffered a “blackout”, before having “like woken up” by seeing “Patrick Bruel, his pants unbuttoned”. The latter allegedly forced her to perform oral sex.
The second complaint against Patrick Bruel concerns acts of sexual assault and sexual exhibition.
The plaintiff explains that she met Patrick Bruel while filming a film in Rhodes, Greece, in 2005. She claims that Patrick Bruel kissed her by surprise, while they were waiting for an elevator in their hotel.
The two plaintiffs are represented by Iris Biehler who believes that “the opportunity is given to women to speak, despite the passage of time”.
Requested, the advice of Patrick Bruel, Fanny Colin, Céline Lasek and Christophe Ingrain, indicated that the singer would answer “for these accusations, which he firmly contests, in the only relevant and appropriate framework: the justice system, if it is seized of these alleged facts of twenty and thirty years ago”.
