A rape investigation was opened on Tuesday after a complaint against influencer Léo Grasset, said the Paris prosecutor's office, confirming information from Mediapart.
The investigations were entrusted to the 3rd DPJ (judicial police district), said the prosecution.
According to Mediapart, the complaint was filed last Thursday, November 24, by a 22-year-old journalism student, who denounced facts dating back to one night in November 2021. Léo Grasset "firmly disputes the accusations" and "will provide his answers to the competent judicial authorities”, commented to AFP Me Fares Aidel, who defends him with Me Camille Loyer.
Another preliminary investigation in Lyon
The science popularizer, who is followed by 1.2 million subscribers on his YouTube channel "DirtyBiology", is also the subject of a preliminary investigation by the Lyon prosecutor's office, the latter confirmed.
This investigation was opened following a complaint for sexual harassment, filed according to Mediapart at the end of June by Clothilde Chamussy, who hosts the YouTube channel "Passé sauvage" (127,000 subscribers).
The influencer responded to the accusations relayed by Mediapart in a video posted on his channel in mid-November.
“I have a sometimes messy love life, and sometimes I also make big redneck jokes, but the article paints a dishonest portrait of me;
he builds a toxic character with insinuations and truncated quotes ”, he declares there, denying in particular having raped a young woman in 2016.
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