The Jean-Luc Lahaye case could experience new developments.
According to Le Parisien, the daughter of the singer and the mothers of the complainants are summoned before the judge this week for an indictment.
They had been heard last November at the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) but then came out free, unlike the artist.
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The leading singer of the 80s is suspected of having sexually assaulted two teenage girls when they were aged 15 to 17 from 2013. The interested party, imprisoned in the prison of Health in Paris, denies the facts and speaks of relations consented.
Pressure, manipulation, intimidation
In November, the singer's daughter, Margaux, had her police custody lifted due to her state of health. According to Le Parisien, the 37-year-old is summoned this Monday, January 24, for an indictment for “witness tampering”. She is suspected of having pressured one of the two complainants and of having manipulated her into exonerating her father during a previous judicial inquiry. Margaux Lahaye, who acted as an intermediary for her father, was sometimes intimidating, sometimes syrupy, making the teenager believe that her father really had feelings for her. In police custody, Margaux Lahaye admitted that she had contacted the complainant at the time to help her father. But she also felt that she had been manipulated by her parent.
The socially fragile mothers of the two complainants are targeted for "non-denunciation of a crime".
They accompanied their daughters to their meeting with the artist and never questioned this connection.
A preliminary investigation was opened in early 2021, after a new complaint from the two young girls, born in 1998 and 2000. They had previously filed a complaint against the singer, but then retracted.
Among the two complainants is the teenager to whom Jean-Luc Lahaye had asked to indulge in sexual games by webcam, when she was 15 and 16 years old.
He had been sentenced for these facts to a one-year suspended prison sentence on May 18, 2015 for corruption of a minor.
During the trial, the variety singer ended up acknowledging the facts, while specifying that the teenager was "
very enterprising and provocative
" during "
long telephone conversations
".
In its judgment, the court considered that the interpreter took advantage
of “the relationship of influence established thanks to his notoriety
” to demand “
obscene acts from this young girl who only has romantic dreams
”.
