The flip side of online fame has the face of a blonde, blue-eyed, sad-looking woman.
More than two years after the death of YouTuber Maëva Frossard, known as MavaChou, the judicial court of Épinal (Vosges) ordered the indictment of her ex-husband, Adrien Czajczynski, and his wife Laura.
On February 27, the couple was also placed under judicial supervision.
Maëva Frossard killed herself at the end of 2021 amid online harassment.
She was 32 years old.
Relatives of the deceased accuse her ex-partner of having led a campaign of hatred against her.
Also a YouTuber, Adrien Czajczynski was fighting to obtain custody of their four children with his partner.
The day of his death, the influencer filed a complaint against him for the fifth time.
In the wake of the tragedy, the Epinal public prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "moral harassment leading to suicide", which has since been transformed into a judicial investigation against acts of “harassment towards Maëva Frossard and her companion Romain”.
“I have done things that may be reprehensible”
From the same source, the IT expertise carried out over the last two years would have made it possible to “de-anonymize” accounts which attacked Maëva on social networks.
In March 2022, Adrien Czajczynski was searched and placed in police custody.
“If there had been serious and consistent elements, I would already be indicted,” he then claimed in the video.
Degrading montages of the young woman were also found by investigators.
When asked, the incriminated couple, themselves victims of death threats on social networks, did not wish to react immediately.
“We have no comment to make at this time, except that we firmly deny having committed any reprehensible act,” temporizes Me Laurent Mortet, who represents Laura Czajczynski.
“My client is available to the courts to answer all the questions that will be asked of him, as he has always done,” recalls Me Renaud Gerardin, the husband's lawyer.
“I have done things that could be reprehensible, I know,” the YouTuber told us last year, in his only press interview.
(…) If I have to assume them, I will assume them in court.
But I will not be alone in the dock.
There are many people who are largely concerned by the tragedy that happened.
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“Serious and consistent” clues
In his frequent exchanges with his subscribers, the videographer sometimes blames the relatives of the deceased, who filed a civil suit against him.
Me Stéphane Giuranna, their lawyer, welcomes “important progress in the case”.
“We are particularly satisfied since this means that there are serious and consistent clues,” he underlines.
What we hope now is that a trial can be held.
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“We see that justice is moving forward, it’s important for us, it shows that it’s not a file that’s lying around in the corner of an office,” says Romain, the influencer’s latest companion, reached by phone. this Tuesday.
In mourning more than two years after the death of the woman who shared his life, this man says he is waiting “for there to be recognition from the justice system of what Maëva, I and her loved ones suffered, that is- i.e. harassment, defamation and invasion of our privacy.
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“I want to reestablish the truth”: Laura, wife of MavaChou’s ex-husband, confides
Since the tragedy, the widower continued to watch what was said about them on social networks, to transmit these elements to investigators.
“I stopped a few months ago, it was becoming too hard psychologically,” he confides.
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For the blogger Jeremstar, committed against harassment phenomena, “the most serious thing is the posthumous harassment that Maëva suffers.
On X (formerly Twitter), we still see horrible montages and publications circulating about her and her partner.
As if no lessons had been learned from this affair.”
The social media star interviewer had gotten closer to the YouTuber a few months before her death.
He played a key role in the case by transmitting to investigators all of the messages exchanged with her.
In these audio notes, the influencer denounced the “persecution” that her ex-husband allegedly subjected her to, his “rumors” and his “slanderous accusations”.