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T. Gagnepain / 20 Minutes

  • An investigation was opened after testimonies of acts of sexual assault and harassment involving one of the managers of the Strasbourg record company Deaf Rock Records.

  • In December, a dozen women revealed these behaviors which would have extended from 2015 to 2019.

  • The manager in question has left his post.

Structures, Last Train, Décibelles… Not so long ago, these groups worked with the Strasbourg record company Deaf Rock Records.

This would no longer be the case, since she found herself at the heart of a scandal of sexual assault and harassment involving one of her managers.

An investigation has been opened on this matter, announced the Strasbourg prosecutor's office on Wednesday.

It was entrusted to the customs brigade of the departmental security of Bas-Rhin, told AFP the chief of staff of the public prosecutor, confirming information from the daily Les Latest Nouvelles d'Alsace.

A complaint was also collected as part of this investigation.

The manager has left office

The record company Deaf Rock Records and its manager, Julien Hohl, had been targeted by testimonies published in mid-December by the news sites Mediapart and Rue89 Strasbourg: a dozen women reported behavior "inappropriate, even violent, of a nature. sexual, which would have occurred between 2015 and 2019 ”.

Two days after the publication, the record company announced that Julien Hohl had "chosen to leave his functions" to "be free of his answers" and "not to expose" the teams with whom he worked.

This case is part of a larger wave of testimonies that have appeared since the summer around the #MusicToo platform, launched by an “anonymous collective against gender-based and sexual violence in the music industry” and popularized on social networks, in the stride of the #MeToo movement.

The existence of #MusicToo had taken on another relief in September with the cases of sexual assault concerning the French rapper Moha La Squale (targeted by an investigation opened after several complaints), the Belgian rapper Roméo Elvis (who apologized on social networks after accusations on the Internet) and the French singer Chloé Briot, who filed a complaint against a singer colleague.

According to a 2019 study by Cura (Collective for the health of artists and music professionals) and Gam (Guild of music artists), 31% of women working in the music sector (artists or professionals) say have been the victim, at least once, of sexual harassment.

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