Singer Jean-Luc Lahaye indicted for rape on minors and placed in pre-trial detention

Stopped Wednesday morning, he is suspected of having sex with two teenage girls aged 16 and 17, in 2013 and 2014.

Le Monde with AFP

At the end of a forty-eight-hour custody, singer Jean-Luc Lahaye was indicted for “rape on minors”, Friday, November 5, and placed in remand, A-T -on learned from the judiciary. The star of the 1980s was also indicted for “sexual assault of minors over 15, corruption of minors” and abuse of weakness, said this source.

Jean-Luc Lahaye had been arrested Wednesday morning, then placed in custody in the premises of the Central Office for the repression of violence to people. Its custody had been extended Thursday morning.

The 68-year-old daddy singer interpreter, is suspected of having had sex with two teenage girls aged 16 and 17, in 2013 and 2014, had revealed The Parisian , confirmed by a source close to the file viewed by the France Media Agency. He would also have “asked, via the Internet and interposed cameras, to undress and take sexual poses”, according to the newspaper.

Three raised view guards

The custody of the singer’s daughter, heard for “subornation of witnesses and complicity of rape on minor over 15”, “was lifted [Wednesday] because of his state of health,” said The parquet of Paris Thursday afternoon.

In addition, two women had also been arrested, suspected of “non-denunciation of crime and complicity of rape on minor over 15”. According to the source close to the file, these are the mothers of the two victims, who would have encouraged them to have relationships with the singer and who would have asked them then asked the facts. According to the Parisian, the Two women have been released without continuation .

The parquet of Paris had opened a preliminary inquiry in early 2021, after a new complaint of the two girls. They had previously filed a complaint against the singer, but had then retracted.

Among the two complainants, the newspaper reports, the adolescent girl, then 14 years old, to which Jean-Luc Lahaye had asked a few years ago to indulge in interposed webcam sex games. He had been sentenced for these facts to one year imprisonment with reprieve on May 18, 2015 for minor corruption. Jean-Luc Lahaye had also been sentenced in 2007 to 10,000 euros fine for sex with a minor of 15 years.

/Media reports.