Child crime The singer was indicted in November 2021 for rape and sexual assault after the denunciations of two young women, minors at the time
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Jean-Luc Lahaye during the “Stars 80 & Friends Triumph” at the Palais Nikaia in Nice in 2018. (ILLUSTRATION PHOTO) — SYSPEO/SIPA
It’s a no for Jean-Luc Lahaye. The Paris Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the ban on the singer, indicted for rape and sexual assault of two minors, from performing in concert, AFP learned from a judicial source. Seized by the lawyers of the star of the 1980s, the investigating chamber of the court of appeal confirmed the ordinance of the examining magistrate of October 4 which had modified the judicial control of Jean-Luc Lahaye in order to prohibit him from performing in concert.
The singer, who had been released in May after more than six months in pre-trial detention, had planned a performance on December 23 at Paris. “It’s,” our knowledge, an unprecedented decision, which directly undermines freedom of expression,” reacted his lawyers, My David Apelbaum and Julia Minkowski, who announced to have formed an appeal in cassation.
Indictment in November 2021
Meanwhile, “the investigations are progressing in slow motion,” the hearing of 25 essential witnesses, only four of whom were heard; heard at this day” and regretting that their client was not heard “only once” investigation, and only part of the alleged facts.
Aged of 69 years, the interpreter of “Dad singer” has been indicted in November 2021 for rape and sexual assault of minors over the age of 15 after the denunciations of two young women, born in 1998 and 2000. The alleged facts, which he disputes, would have started in 2013. Among the two plaintiffs is a teenage girl. which Jean-Luc Lahaye had requested to indulge in sexual games by webcam, when she was 15 and 16 years old.
Previous conviction in 2007
He had been condemned for these facts to a one-year suspended sentence on May 18, 2015 for corruption of a minor. At the beginning of October, she told on RMC that the assaults she says she suffered happened “largely in the dressing rooms, backstage at concerts”.
According to a source familiar with the matter, she related; to investigators of rapes committed “at concert venues or” she had herself invited, to hotel or in the studio of Jean-Luc Lahaye”, denouncing “at least six passages through the act” with “painful intercourse”. Jean-Luc Lahaye had also been condemned in 2007 at; 10,000 euros fine for sex with a 15-year-old minor.