The YouTube star was placed in police custody on Monday for “rape and corruption of minors”.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
The police custody of Norman Thavaud was extended Tuesday, December 6, announced the Paris prosecutor’s office to the France-Presse agency (AFP). The YouTube star with 12 million subscribers was placed in police custody on Monday for “rape and corruption of minors”, as part of a preliminary investigation entrusted to the miners’ protection brigade (BPM), open in January 2022.
Six young women filed a complaint against the animator of the “Norman makes videos”. According to the newspaper Liberation , five of them would accuse Norman Thavaud of rape, and two were minor at the time of the facts. p>
In 2020, a Quebec fan, Maggie D., had publicly accused the Youtubeur of having manipulated him to obtain photos and videos of a sexual nature, when she was 16 years old at that time. She said she had filed a complaint in Canada. As part of a Franco-Québec survey published by the Urbania media in April 2021, other women had made comparable charges against Mr. Thavaud for facts that would have occurred while some were still minor.