The Paris prosecutor's office requested a trial against Jean-Marc Morandini, who was the subject of accusations of sexual harassment by a young man, a minor at the time of the facts. The host contests these accusations. 

The Paris prosecutor's office has requested a trial for "corruption of a minor" from the host Jean-Marc Morandini, targeted by charges he disputes, we learned on Sunday from a judicial source, confirming information from the Parisian . Nearly four years after the opening of an investigation, the public prosecutor requested on April 3 that the host of CNews and NRJ12 be tried before the criminal court for "corruption of a minor" and "corruption of a minor per person contact with the victim via an electronic communications network ".

He also requested that Jean-Marc Morandini be kept under judicial supervision. It is now up to the investigating judge to decide whether to hold a trial. "We are quite surprised by the operating mode," reacted to AFP one of the animator's lawyers, Me Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt, explaining that the indictment had been rendered while the defense had filed requests for acts . "It is a rushed indictment, there are still a lot of gray areas," she said.

A young man accuses him of having made sexual offers by SMS 

In this case, Jean-Marc Morandini, now 54 years old, was indicted in 2016 after two young men, minors at the time of the events they are denouncing, brought justice. One of these young men has since withdrawn his complaint. In the first complaint, a young man claimed that Jean-Marc Morandini had made sexual offers to him in SMS exchanges, between February and March 2013.

The second complainant, who has since withdrawn, had for his part said that he had been contacted in July 2009 by the production company of Jean-Marc Morandini via a casting site for a remake of the director's film "Ken Park" American Larry Clark, who told the life of teenagers in the United States between boredom, sex and violence. He explained that he had been invited, alone, to the host's home where the latter would have invited him to undress and reproduce a masturbation scene, according to  the Parisian .

Another sexual harassment case before the courts 

In another case, Morandini was accused of "sexual harassment" and "hidden work" by several actors in 2016, in an article in the cultural magazine Les Inrocks on naked castings organized by the television host. These actors, who have since filed a complaint, had accused Jean-Marc Morandini and his company "Ne Zappez pas Production" of having benefited from the castings of an erotic web-series, "les Faucons", to push them to exhibit naked while being filmed or while filming themselves.

Seized of this complaint, the Paris prosecutor's office had closed its investigation without follow-up in January 2017. But the plaintiffs obtained in 2018 the resumption of the investigations, now in the hands of a Paris investigating judge.