The trial of renowned cellist Jérôme Pernoo began Friday afternoon in a packed room of the court. The former professor of the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris, 51, disputes these accusations.
He is first suspected of sexual assault on a minor, in 2005 in London, on a student at the time aged 14. The defendant acknowledged "counterfeiting" of which he did not "give the fall" But he denied any "sexual joke", saying that "this story of sexualization of courses is completely artificial"