The Dutch public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that proceedings would be brought against two people accused of sexual assault in the context of the television program "The Voice of Holland", the format of which has been exported to more than 150 countries.
The prosecution did not mention names but according to local media, they are rapper Ali B, 42, former member of the jury of the famous Dutch TV show, and Jeroen Rietbergen, 51, chef orchestra of the show.
Shock for the country
The original version of the program, in which coaches on swivel chairs choose the candidates after listening to them sing “
blindly
”, was suspended last year by the RTL channel after a series of allegations of sexual assaults .
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The prosecution said in a statement on Tuesday that a 41-year-old man was being prosecuted for sexually assaulting three women in 2014 and 2018. Only one of these cases is linked to the program "The Voice of Holland",
said
the wooden floor.
Another man, 51, is charged with a sexual assault in 2018 "
in or around the recording studios where the tele-hook was recorded
", he added.
A third case, involving another man, identified by the media as the singer and member of the jury of "
The Voice
" Marco Borsato, was dismissed for lack of sufficient evidence, continued the prosecution.
Allegations of sexual abuse to '
The Voice
' have shocked the Netherlands and raised questions about how program creator and reality TV king John de Mol dealt with the revelations.
He admitted last year to having been aware of the allegations against the show's bandleader since 2019.
