Rape of minors: producer Gérard Louvin and her husband targeted by a new investigation

AFP edited by Europe 1 7:58 p.m., September 11, 2021

The Paris prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation in August against producer Gérard Louvin and his spouse, Daniel Moyne.

According to the Parisian, the investigations were launched after a testimony accusing the couple of sex tourism in Brazil in 2004 was transmitted in the spring to French justice.

Gérard Louvin and Daniel Moyne deny outright

Contacted by AFP, the lawyers of Gérard Louvin and Daniel Moyne disputed the facts. Maître Céline Bekerman, who defends Daniel Moyne, described the opening of the investigation as "absurd". "It is no longer a question of justice but of a relentlessness that no element justifies," she said. Gérard Louvin's lawyer, Maître Christophe Ayela, for his part announced that he would file a complaint on Monday for slanderous denunciation against this couple, as well as another against the Parisian. "We do not dirty people like that", he declared, affirming that "the attempted extortion", according to him, of Olivier A., ​​the nephew of Gérard Louvin who accused his uncle of incest and his companion in a complaint and who is himself the subject ofan investigation for "blackmail", had triggered "many greed and slander".

Paid sex parties with favela minors

"In the spring, a couple who lived in Rio de Janeiro between 1999 and 2009 communicated to the courts a certificate in which they claim to have been aware of the organization by the two men of paid sex parties with minors from the favelas," says the Parisian.

"The two witnesses mainly refer to a party which would have been organized during the New Year's Eve at the end of 2004. A + paid sex part + which they did not attend, but which, according to their statements, would have been reported to them by the host star Julien Courbet and his wife, "he continues.

According to the couple who denounced the facts, Julien Courbet, who had come to dine at his place the day after the events, said he was "shocked" by the atmosphere at this evening.

"Julien Courbet has never witnessed anything"

"This is completely false, Julien Courbet has never witnessed anything," said the lawyer of the host, Sylvie Noachovitch, to AFP.

If that had been the case, "he would have immediately denounced it to the Paris prosecutor", she assured, indicating that she would file a complaint for "defamation" against the couple.