“I kiss you as I like you. » It’s by this unusual formulation that Olivier B. had gotten into the behavior of signing his emails despatched to teenage ladies, generally very younger. Aged 62, this piano trainer is accused rape and sexual assault by a number of former college students. 20 Minutes recognized no less than 4 complaints, three of which had been closed as a result of the information are prescribed. However round ten girls, who met by way of support platform for victims of sexual assault Coabusesay they’re victims of this pianist who labored for a very long time on the Valenciennes conservatory (Nord) earlier than settling in Normandy.
Alice* was 17 when she met the piano trainer for the primary time. It was in 2003, throughout an audition on the Le Havre conservatory (Seine-Maritime), the place Olivier B. officiated as a jury. “On the finish of the audition, he got here to see me with my mom to congratulate me. He advised me that I used to be enjoying very effectively and that he may assist me. He requested for my electronic mail handle so he may ship me scores,” she remembers. The identical night, he sends her messages. “At first, it was regular, however afterward, it turned increasingly ambiguous, there have been allusions. He stated to me “I kiss you, guess the place”. In his messages, he typically spoke to me about his personal life,” she continues. He sends her many emails, however the “relationship” is barely epistolary.
“He began touching me all over the place”
The next 12 months, she crossed paths with the pianist once more throughout an audition. Olivier B. presents to take her dwelling by automobile. “My mom wasn’t there, I used to be on their lonesome at dwelling. He got here upstairs and began touching me all over the place, undressing me. He had a form of maintain on me, I used to be frozen. He penetrated me together with his fingers. I simply wished it to cease. » Alice will want years of remedy to understand that she was “manipulated”. It was solely in 2017 that she went to a police station to file a grievance. That very same 12 months, one other younger girl filed a grievance towards this piano trainer for comparable acts relationship again to 2014.
Alice’s grievance was lastly dismissed in 2020: the information, though characterised, had been prescribed. The opposite grievance suffered the identical destiny. The general public prosecutor of Valenciennes confirmed the existence of 4 complaints however indicated that she had withdrawn accountability for the advantage of the Lisieux public prosecutor’s workplace. When requested, the latter didn’t reply to our requests. The prosecutor of the Norman courtroom however, indicated to The Voice of the North that the 2 complaints closed with out follow-up could be topic to unarchiving.
“He didn’t cover it”
“Everybody knew that he had an attraction to little ladies,” assures a former colleague from the conservatory of Valenciennes. In 1999, Olivier B. was 35 years previous. He’s married and the daddy of kids. Nevertheless, he boasts to his colleagues of getting shaped a “romantic” relationship with one in all his college students, then aged 14. “He was very snug, certain of himself so he talked about it overtly. He didn’t cover it, he stated he was in a relationship,” remembers his former colleague. Information that he acknowledges in emails that we had been capable of seek the advice of. “If I had stated in phrases: ‘I’m in love with a 14 12 months previous woman, I’m 35 and I’m married and the daddy of three kids’, individuals would have referred to as me a bastard, irresponsible…”, he wrote to Alice, 4 years later.
On the Valenciennes conservatory the place he labored till 2012, a number of younger musicians requested to alter academics. That is notably the case for Léa, who was 15 years previous in 2005. “He put his arms on me, he took me by the waist. He was very shut, tactile, he positioned himself on me. His habits was not regular, there was a type of ambiguity,” says the younger girl, who filed a grievance in February. That is the one grievance which, to our data, has not been closed.
Sooner or later, Léa all of the sudden left class to take refuge within the subsequent room. “My mom spoke to the director about it and it went as much as the tradition assistant on the city corridor. I believe everybody knew. » Olivier B.’s former colleague confirms that the professor was summoned. “He threatened to sue us for defamation. We talked about it on the city corridor, we had been requested to be quiet. I am annoyed that I did not go additional. I’ve a type of anger, of guilt. »
He’s the parish organist
However the testimonies report information which might have began even earlier than his hiring on the conservatory. In 1981, Louise was 9 years previous. She started piano classes with the dad and mom of the accused who was then 18 years previous. “He gave me kisses on the cheek, he made me do the identical to him. He took me on his knees. He stated that I understood him, and that I knew he wanted love. I ended up throwing a tantrum to my dad and mom as a result of I did not wish to return. » In 2024, when recollections returned to her, Louise filed a grievance for sexual abuse of a minor nevertheless it was closed, the information being prescribed.
The final grievance dates again to 2014 however the case has come again to the forefront following a number of press articles. As a result of this professor is at all times in touch with minors. He works as an organist in a parish and this summer time, he has to participate in a music course. Contacted by 20 Minutesthese answerable for the affiliation organizing the course didn’t observe up.
In Might, nevertheless, the multiplicity of articles pushed one in all his employers – an affiliation in Trouville – to terminate his contract, after three years of classes. However the affiliation didn’t uncover the previous of its piano trainer within the press: a number of individuals had alerted him effectively earlier than. “We recruited him in 2023. In 2024, somebody alerted us to inform us that he had been convicted (which isn’t the case). After I referred to as him to speak to him about it, he fiercely denied it. He advised me that it wasn’t true and that folks had been manipulating. He introduced again the 2 complaints which had been closed with out additional motion. He confirmed them to me. I knowledgeable the city corridor and we stored a watch on it,” explains the director of one other affiliation which employed him.
When requested, Olivier B. didn’t want to reply our questions.
