The singer’s custody Patrick Bruel accused of sexual violence and began on Monday is prolonged by 24 hours within the premises of the judicial police of the Paris police headquarters, in line with data from France Information. His police custody will subsequently finish on Wednesday morning.
Patrick Bruel, accused of rape and sexual assault by a number of girls and who just lately canceled his live performance tour, was taken into police custody Monday morning, whereas two new complaints of rape had been just lately filed towards him. The singer is being questioned on “details which concern at this stage 13 victims”, indicated the Nanterre prosecutor’s workplace in a press launch, confirming the data from France Info.
The present investigation “issues the details (denounced by) three girls implicating Patrick Bruel for acts of sexual assault and tried rape” in 1997, 2000 and 2001, added the prosecution. It additionally examines “acts of rape or tried rape, sexual assault and harassment”, denounced by other victims recognized through the investigations. Amongst these different details, the denunciation of a rape in Dinard in 2012 by a lady aged 32 on the time of the occasions. This denunciation was initially dealt with by the Saint-Malo public prosecutor’s workplace, which relinquished accountability on the finish of Could in favor of the Nanterre public prosecutor’s workplace. Patrick Bruel should even be questioned about an “official denunciation emanating from the Belgian authorities” after a criticism of rape and sexual assault in 2010 in Brussels of a lady then aged 40.
“On the disposal of justice”
The singer “had made it recognized for a number of weeks that he was on the disposal of justice, to lastly be capable of reply throughout the framework of the authorized process, earlier than the competent authority”, reacted in a press launch his legal professionals Christophe Ingrain, Céline Lasek and Fanny Colin. “He’ll reply all of the investigators’ questions, will transmit all the weather essential to exhibit his innocence,” they continued.
