Europe 1 with AFP 10:40 p.m., February 8, 2024, modified to 10:40 p.m., February 8, 2024
The actor Philippe Caubère was indicted on Thursday for sexual assault, rape and corruption of a minor over 15 years old, for alleged acts against three minors, and placed under judicial supervision, indicated the Créteil prosecutor's office, confirming information from the Parisian.
Philippe Caubère was the subject of a preliminary investigation for "sexual assault on a minor over 15 years old by a person in authority", after the complaint of a young actress against the 73-year-old director and actor, accusing him of " sexual abuse" in 2012 when she was 16 and he was 61.
He was taken into police custody on Tuesday and interviewed by Val-de-Marne territorial security investigators, said the prosecution, which reclassified the facts as rape and sexual assault. After the opening of a judicial investigation, Philippe Caubère was indicted for alleged facts which took place in 2012 for a first victim, and between 2010 and 2019 for a second, detailed the public prosecutor.
Three dates canceled in January
He is also indicted for corruption of a minor over 15 years old on a third victim, facts which took place between 2019 and 2021, according to the same source. Philippe Caubère admitted in January in a press release sent to AFP that he had had an intimate relationship for four months in 2012 with a minor aged 16, a relationship he said was consensual.
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Three performance halls in Gard had canceled performances by actor Philippe Caubère at the beginning of January, after the announcement of the opening of an investigation by the Créteil public prosecutor's office.
“Given the information published in the press this Monday, January 8 concerning an investigation targeting the actor Philippe Caubère, the management of the three structures jointly announce the suspension of performances” explained the three theaters: the Albarède in Ganges , La Maison de l’Eau in Allègre-les-Fumades and Le Cratère in Alès in a press release posted on social networks.
A plaintiff convicted of defamation in 2021
A figure in the theater scene, the actor had already been the subject of a complaint for rape, dismissed in 2019. His accuser at the time had denounced in March 2018 acts of rape committed eight years previously, in 2010 , on his person by the director. The Créteil public prosecutor's office closed the proceedings, as there was "no element" allowing "to corroborate the complainant's statements on the absence of consent".
This complainant was convicted in September 2021 for defamation, a conviction including the payment of 1,000 euros “in compensation for the moral damage” of the artist.