Singer Jean-Luc Lahaye indicted for rape of minors

• Singer Jean-Luc Lahaye was indicted on Friday for “rape and sexual assault on minors over 15” and for “corruption of minors”.

• The 1980s star is believed to have had sex with two teenage girls then aged 16 and 17, between 2013 and 2018.

• The two young women, who have come of age, filed a complaint at the start of the year.

  The Paris prosecutor's office then opened an investigation, which led to his arrest and his placement in police custody on Wednesday.

Two days after being arrested and taken into custody, Jean-Luc Lahaye was indicted this Friday afternoon, in particular for "rape and sexual assault on minors over 15 years old" and for "corruption of minors" , learns

from the Paris prosecutor's office. Suspected of having abused two teenage girls between 2013 and 2018, the 68-year-old singer was remanded in custody / under judicial supervision. The custody of his daughter Margaux, heard for "witness tampering and complicity in rape of a minor over 15 years", was lifted Wednesday because of his state of health. The investigators wonder if this paraplegic woman would not have put pressure on the victims to force them to silence.

At the material time, the two victims were aged 16 and 17.

"They come from families more or less fans of Jean-Luc Lahaye", explains to

a source familiar with the matter.

According to our information, their mothers, suspected of having encouraged them to have relations with the interpreter of 

, were also arrested and placed in police custody for "non-denunciation of a crime and complicity in the rape of a minor of more than 15 years ”.

They were released without prosecution at this stage.

Sexual pictures

The artist, who has never hidden that his penchant for "young women" was his "weakness", had already been sentenced in 2015 to a one-year suspended sentence for having asked a girl in 2013 to less than 15 years of indulging in sex games by webcam interposed. He had started chatting on Facebook with the teenager, then 14, and repeatedly asked her for nude photos. She refused at first, before complying with his demands and providing him with pictures of a sexual nature.

At the time, she and another young singer admirer had sex with him.

They had lodged a complaint before retracting.

Having come of age, they decided at the beginning of the year to file a new complaint against him, believing in hindsight to have been raped by Jean-Luc Lahaye.

The Paris prosecutor's office then opened a preliminary investigation, entrusted to investigators from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons.

A few months later, the police decided to hear him in the premises of the DCPJ in Nanterre.

Due to his criminal record, the prosecution requested that he be placed in pre-trial detention.

The star of the 1980s had indeed already been sentenced in early 2007 to a fine of 10,000 euros for having had sexual relations with a minor under 15 years old.

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