Europe 1 with AFP 9:21 p.m., December 8, 2021

A woman filed a complaint on Wednesday against Nicolas Hulot for rape when she was a minor. It makes women who, in November, had testified against the former minister in the program of "Special Envoy" on France 2 for acts of rape or sexual assault. Since then, investigations have continued. 

A woman, who accuses Nicolas Hulot of having raped her when she was a minor and whose testimony on television led to the opening of an investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office has lodged a complaint, we learned on Wednesday from source close to the case, confirming information from LCI.

She was also auditioned, said this source.

At least six women accuse the former host and former minister Nicolas Hulot of rape or sexual assault committed between 1989 and 2001, which he categorically denies.

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In a report broadcast at the end of November on the special Envoy on France 2, three of them, two of them with their faces uncovered, recounted the sexual assaults of which they say they were victims.

The complainant, Sylvia, indicates that she was sexually assaulted in 1989 at the age of 16 by Nicolas Hulot, in the latter's car, after having been invited to attend a program that he then hosted in Paris.

Contacted, his lawyers did not wish to speak.

The day after the report, on November 26, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation as it has systematically done for several years as soon as a minor victim is mentioned, even in the absence of a complaint, in particular in order to verify whether it is there are no others. 

"A lynching"

The investigations, entrusted to the brigade for the protection of minors (BPM) of the regional direction of the judicial police (DRPJ), must "determine whether the facts denounced can characterize a criminal offense and whether, in view of their seniority, the prescription of public action is acquired, "said the prosecutor, Laure Beccuau.

The day before the show, the former Minister of State (2017-2018) had formally denied on BFMTV these accusations of sexual assault and announced to leave public life "definitively", to protect his relatives and his Foundation from the fallout. 'a "lynching".