Singer Stéphane Métro sentenced to five years in prison for sexual abuse of minors

Singer Stéphane Métro, 46, known for his roles in musicals like

or

, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison, including one and a half years by the Bobigny judicial court for sexual abuse of adolescents, then his students.

He was also sentenced to a permanent ban on exercising an activity in contact with minors and to socio-judicial monitoring for ten years.

During his trial in December, Stéphane Métro admitted having had a

with one of his students, then 14 years old and he was 27 years old.

Present at the hearing, the devastated victim will be unable to speak.

The secret affair lasts several years, including the first two when they will only have anal sex.

It was the first sexual experience of the victim, who then suffered from serious disorders.

, declared to AFP Marianne Rostan, lawyer of the young woman.

The singer was also found guilty of sexually assaulting two other victims, a 15-year-old student he had sex with in 2010 and 2011, and a 14-year-old girl he sent inappropriate messages to in 2015.

"Pathological behavior"

The singer had already been convicted of sexual abuse of minors in 1996 on children aged 10 and 11 in summer camp, when he was 18. He claimed to have been raped during his childhood by two members of his family on his island of birth, Reunion.

, had underlined his lawyer, Bérenger Tourné, during the trial.

Author-composer and director, Stéphane Métro made a name for himself in the early 2000s via the musical

by Gérard Presgurvic and then that of Roman Polanski,

.

He taught singing during private lessons but also at Aicom, a school of musical comedy founded by Pierre-Yves Duchesne, from which he himself was dismissed in 2022, after accusations from students and teachers in the press for harassment , humiliation and sexual assault.

Finally, he was on the jury of several television shows, including

and

.