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Jean-Luc Lahaye case: associations for the defense of children are stepping up to the plate

2021-11-07T21:13:51.493Z


The associations Innocence in danger, the Voice of the Child and the Children's Foundation must become a civil party from this Monday in


At the time, he had not dispelled their doubts.

Quite the contrary.

Civil parties during the previous legal disputes with Jean-Luc Lahaye, in 2015, several child protection associations announced their intention to do the same in the new procedure targeting the singer.

This Friday, he was indicted and imprisoned on suspicion of rape and sexual assault on two minors, facts which would have started when they were respectively 15 and 16 years old.

However, among the two complainants is precisely the teenager for whom Lahaye was tried for corruption of a minor in 2015. He had received, after a closed hearing, a one-year prison sentence. suspended sentence for having initiated sex games by webcam interposed with R., then 14 years old. Unconditional fan, nor she if her parents had not then wished to file a complaint.

As soon as they left the court, some associations were however moved by the singer's "casual" attitude: "Obviously, he was not aware of the extremely serious nature of the facts with which he is accused, explained at the microphone of Europe 1 , Me Nathalie Bucquet, the current lawyer for the two plaintiffs who then represented Innocence in Danger.

He expresses remorse in the sense that he and this young minor have a romantic relationship, and that, why not, when she will be 18, they can find each other and live their story, ”the criminal still reported.

"The incredible number of seduction" of the singer

Jean-Luc Lahaye would therefore not have waited for the majority of R. with whom he admitted in police custody to have had relations, but which he considers consented, as for the second complainant.

"La Voix de l'Enfant had on leaving the hearing a presumption of sexual violence much more important than a simple corruption of minors", abounds today its president Martine Brousse, who remembers "the incredible number of seduction ”of the singer at the helm.

“Jean-Luc Lahaye never confessed this relationship with R., remembers Me Olivier Baratelli, who represented The Children's Foundation, civil party in the trial.

At the time, he was only talking about a virtual relationship!

"

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In a long interview with Europe 1 in March 2015, still visible online, Jean-Luc Lahaye was in any case publicly defended.

"Did you have sex with her?"

»Asked Jean-Marc Morandini.

" Never !

The singer replied with aplomb, saying "stabbed in (

his

) human dignity" and denying - which he will finally admit at the hearing - to have claimed the photos and videos in question.

No treatment order requested in 2015

"Not surprised" by this new questioning, Martine Brousse explains having "always thought that there were other potential victims and that all of them have perhaps not yet made themselves known". Like the other associations, she regrets that the injunction of care, then recommended by the psychiatrist expert who examined Jean-Luc Lahaye, was not ordered at the time. "In the event that facts subsequent to 2015 are established, we can only regret the absence of safeguards in the case of a personality who has never hidden his attraction to young girls", underlines Me Stanislas Panon, for Innocence in danger.

A decision all the more surprising since the singer had already been sentenced to a fine of 10,000 euros in 2007 for “sexual abuse”, for having had relations with a minor under the age of fifteen.

Denouncing a file "in which all the investigations have been carried out", Me David Apelbaum, who defends the singer with Me Camilla Quendolo, promises for his part that "the judicial information will restore the truth".

Source: leparis

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