Sébastien Cauet, who has been charged with at least five counts of rape and sexual assault, was taken into police custody on Thursday, May 23. The presenter appeared before investigators free to be questioned on the charges against him.
Is there anything new in the Sébastien Cauet affair? The host, against whom at least five complaints of sexual assault and rape have been filed, was taken into police custody by the youth brigade this Thursday, May 23, according to information from BFMTV. This case has been ongoing since last November and the filing of the first complaint by a woman denouncing two rapes that she believes took place in 2014, when she was still a minor, and in 2022. Subsequently, an investigation was opened for “rapes against minors over 15 years of age and rape” and four more complaints followed.
Since the first accusations, Sébastien Cauet has maintained his innocence and has always denied the facts of which he is accused. He has also filed several complaints for defamatory denunciation and attempted aggravated extortion.
Sébastien Cauet has already been interviewed by investigators
It is not the first time that the French host has been questioned by the police in connection with this affair. At the end of last year he was interviewed by the Youth Brigade as a complainant after filing a complaint for defamatory denunciation. Sébastien Cauet is again before the police to respond to the allegations made against him and the alleged facts, but continues to deny these facts, stated his lawyers Simon Clemenceau and Xavier Autain.
The two councils assure that the moderator “turned to the investigating authorities voluntarily and at his request in order to be able to answer all the questions asked point by point,” they say. BFMTV“Sébastien Cauet calls for restraint and recalls the principle of the presumption of innocence,” added the two lawyers, recalling their client’s position.
The host denounces an “attempt at blackmail”
Sébastien Cauet publicly defended himself against the allegations on social networks and in press releases from his lawyers. In December, he denounced “lies” in the program BFMTV. “These are very serious allegations,” he explained, assuring that “everything is false, it’s all lies.”
More than just lies, the moderator denounces “an attempted extortion of money by an organized gang,” for which he supposedly has “evidence.” On the issue, he stated that he was the “first complainant” in the case by filing a complaint of harassment before the first complaint of rape. This Thursday, May 23, Sébastien Cauet’s lawyers also recall that “an investigation is underway at the Nanterre Public Prosecutor’s Office into the offenses he denounces: cyberharassment, defamatory denunciation and attempted extortion of money”. The moderator “hopes that the perpetrators of these acts can soon be arrested and stopped.”
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