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PARIS (AP) — French singer and actor Patrick Bruel is in police custody over allegations by now not decrease than 13 females of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault, the prosecutor’s administrative center in Nanterre stated on Tuesday.
Bruel, 67, who has been in police custody since Monday, denies the allegations.
The singer grew to change into a foremost well-known particular person across the French-speaking world in the Eighties and Nineties with a string of hit songs that grew to change into section of French stylish custom. He has moreover seemed in bigger than 40 movie and tv productions.
The Nanterre prosecutor’s administrative center stated in a statement that the investigation started after three females accused Bruel of sexual assault and attempted rape allegedly committed in 1997, 2000 and 2001.
Throughout the investigation, extra females grasp been known and interviewed. They reported allegations of rape or attempted rape, sexual assault and harassment, per the statement.
Individually, an investigation opened in western France over an alleged rape in 2012 in Dinard, in the Brittany plight, became transferred to the Nanterre prosecutor’s administrative center.
Belgian authorities moreover formally notified French prosecutors earlier this month of allegations by a girl who accused Bruel of rape and sexual assault allegedly committed in Brussels in 2010, per the statement.
Bruel’s legal professionals, Christophe Ingrain, Céline Lasek and Fanny Colin stated in a statement the singer has indicated for several weeks “he became accessible to the judicial authorities in say that he would possibly well probably per chance at final reply by the correct dazzling complaints.”
French judicial authorities would possibly well probably per chance either file preliminary charges in opposition to Bruel or open him freed from charges by the cease of the day.
In present weeks, a series of media reviews, significantly by French investigative web disclose Mediapart, brought into public consideration allegations by multiple females running over an extended time in opposition to Bruel, prompting extra complaints to be filed.
