On April 3, the Paris public prosecutor's office had requested that Jean-Marc Morandini be sent to correctional for “corruption of a minor over 15 years old”. According to our information, the investigating judge in charge of the case followed this advice and a trial will indeed take place, at a date to be fixed, subject to new judicial developments.
The host of CNews and NRJ12 is accused by two teenagers who were 15 and 16 years old at the time of the facts, in 2009 and 2013. Jean-Marc Morandini would have, according to the first, exchanged particularly raw text messages. In the second, met during a casting for an erotic film project, he would have asked to undress before asking to mimic a masturbation scene. In his defense, the host explained that he could not know that the youngest of his accusers was a minor, and he totally denies the charges in the second part of the case.
"Without suspense"
"The investigating judge resumed the prosecution's requisitions, unfortunately without much suspense," comments the lawyer for the accused, Me Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt, contacted Thursday evening. Mr. Morandini has contested from the outset the allegations against him. There were two complainants, one withdrew its complaint. We had requested acts, because there was a selection of messages only in the file, and not their entirety. This request was refused by the examining magistrate at the same time as he referred the case back, so we will appeal this referral order. "
