Lyricist Yohann Malory is facing charges of sexual assault.
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LAURENT BENHAMOU / SIPA
He is notably the lyricist of Johnny Hallyday, Jenifer, Louane, M Pokora or even Miossec.
Yohann Malory was taken into custody at the 1st DPJ (judicial police) Wednesday in Paris, as part of an investigation into sexual assault, according to a source familiar with the case, confirming information from
Point
.
The Paris prosecutor's office opened on October 19 an investigation following the filing of several complaints implicating Yohann Malory for sexual offenses.
Several testimonies accuse the artist of assault
According to the news of Le
Point
and Le
Parisien
, it is a 24-year-old artist, Lola Le Lann, who broke the affair by announcing on October 6 that she had decided to cancel the release of her first album.
She then explained that she had received several testimonies accusing Yohann Malory, one of the authors of the songs on her album, of assault.
Model Charlotte Lemay has also filed a complaint against the lyricist, according to
Le Parisien
.
"Victim of slanderous publications"
The lyricist's lawyer, Me Antoine Vey, then argued that his client was "a victim of slanderous and very evolving publications on social networks".
On January 8, Yohann Malory sent the Paris prosecutor's office a complaint for slanderous denunciation.
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