According to the singer, the facts took place on stage, still in the presence of witnesses.
Le Monde with afp
The complaint for sexual assault filed by the French soprano Chloé Briot against a singer singer was classified without follow -up, announced the Besançon prosecutor, Etienne Manteaux, Tuesday September 20. The singer had carried the #MeToo movement in the field of music in 2020.
The mirror complaint filed by the respondent for “slanderous denunciations” against the singer was also classified without follow -up, said the prosecutor at a press conference.
The baritone had to “interpret scenes of love for the sake of hyperrealism, under the permanent control of the director, with a partner who, at no time, told him of his discomfort in the interpretation Of these two scenes of sex, “notes the magistrate. However, “he was not demonstrated during the investigation that the Mr. was aware that his acting play had gradually generated such a painful feeling in his partner,” he said, stressing the absence of a “Topable intention in the defendant”.
m. Coats also considered that “the radical change [of the singer] in the interpretation of the two scenes from the evolution of the instructions of the director”, to which the soprano had entrusted her feelings, “is a guarantee of her good faith “.
Soprano Chloé Briot had filed a complaint in 2020 for repeated sexual assaults from this singer colleague. According to her, the facts took place on stage, still in the presence of witnesses, in 2018 during the Opera Le Roi Carotte, in Lille, then in 2020 at the operas of Rennes and Nantes, during the show the flood , by Joël Pommerat.
A preliminary investigation had been opened on May 15, 2020 by the Besançon prosecution, this one being competent because the baritone, converted since to become a nursing assistant to EHPAD, is domiciled on its jurisdiction. The branch of the Besançon judicial police, that of Rennes and the Central Office for the repression of violence for people (OCRVP) had been seized.