Jean-Luc Lahaye left the "VIP" area of the prison of Health (Paris XIV).
Indicted for "rape", "rape and sexual assault on 15-year-old minors" as well as "corruption of minors" and remanded in custody since November 5, the 69-year-old variety singer is now a free man.
According to our information, confirmed by a judicial source, the Paris investigation chamber ordered his release on Tuesday, May 24, under judicial supervision after an appeal by his lawyers, My David Apelbaum and Julia Minkowki.
His two advisers had previously filed a request for release, rejected by the investigating judges but therefore validated by the Paris Court of Appeal.
The author of “Papa singer” will have spent six months in detention in this wing of the Health reserved for “vulnerable” detainees, personalities sensitive by their media coverage or their profession.
Two complaints filed by teenage ex-fans
The former glory of French song was arrested last fall after two complaints filed against him a few months earlier by two former teenage fans.
Roxane and Émeline (
the first names have been changed
) both accuse Jean-Luc Lahaye of having used his notoriety and his aura to obtain numerous sexual relations of incredible brutality when they were only young teenagers. in love and easily influenced, between August 2013 and April 2015 for the first, and in May 2016 and February 2018, for the second.
Aged between 15 and 18 at the time, they were almost fifty years apart from the artist‚ although sexually of age.
The psychological expertise of the young women had revealed a deep trauma.
For his part, Jean-Luc Lahaye strongly contested any violent or imposed sexual relationship.
He evoked relations agreed with these young women and put forward the idea of a consultation between the plaintiffs to harm him against a background of disillusionment in love.
“Is this revenge?
I don't know, he wondered during his first appearance interrogation.
Is it something more hidden, which would be something less avowable, which would ultimately be pecuniary, to obtain convictions and fines.
(…)
Perhaps because I have been happy in my life with Paola (
his new partner
) for five years.
Maybe it's a mistake for them to be happy with Paola.
»
Recently, the investigation had taken a turn.
Jean-Luc Lahaye's lawyers have provided numerous elements that would weaken the charges of one of the complainants.
According to the new pieces, this one would never evoke constraint and would evoke with tenderness the moments spent with his idol.
At the same time, the investigating judges have indicted two new people.
First, the singer's eldest daughter, Margaux Lahaye, for "tampering with witnesses".
Suspected of having pressured one of the declared victims so that she does not incriminate her father, she disputes the facts.
Then Emeline's mother for "non-denunciation of a crime".
She is suspected of having turned a blind eye to the alleged abuse suffered by her daughter, being herself a fan of the singer.
Roxane's mother was also to be indicted, but her questioning was postponed due to her fragile psychological state.
