Plastic surgeon Claude Lévêque, 67, is the target of an investigation for rape and sexual assault on minors opened following accusations by a 51-year-old sculptor who says he was a victim with his two brothers, the prosecution said on Monday. de Bobigny, confirming information from
Le Monde.
The investigation was opened in the spring of 2019 and entrusted to the Territorial Security of Seine-Saint-Denis, where the artist resides.
In an investigation published Sunday evening by
Le Monde,
the sculptor Laurent Faulon says he was raped by the plastic surgeon from the age of 10 and until he was 17, in the mid-1980s. He reported these actions in a letter addressed to the Bobigny prosecutor in February 2019.
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"
I am aware that the criminal acts of which I was the victim are certainly now prescribed, but this complaint allows me to denounce to justice other acts not prescribed on other victims and to report that one or more minors are now in great danger of sexual abuse if the irreparable has not already been committed,
”he wrote.
Laurent Faulon also evokes the “
hold
” of Claude Lévêque, one of the carpets of which adorns an office at the Élysée, on his family, from a very popular background in the Nièvre.
The sculptor accuses the plastic surgeon of having also raped his two brothers.
One of them, who fell into drugs like him, died in 1998 at the age of 34 after yet another suicide attempt.
According to Laurent Faulon, the artist claimed his relations with minors: “I
associated pedophilia with a kind of resistance to society.
To convince myself, I read pedophile authors, like (Gabriel) Matzneff for example.
The Bishop reads this kind of literature, I have known this kind of literature through (his) bias,
”he explained to investigators, according to
Le Monde.
The daily indicates that "
justice has received another report concerning Claude Lévêque
" and adds that it has collected other testimonies which "
describe disturbing behavior with young boys
".