VIDEO. The broken choirs

It is a muffled world, often bourgeois, where speech is finally free: that of children’s choirs. The “Special Envoy” teams, in partnership with the daily The Parisianreveal several sexual abuses that would have been committed on young singers by choir directors, in particular within the choir school of Moineaux du Val-de-Marne, in the Paris suburbs.

The omerta seems to have reigned for a long time in the city of Nogent-sur-Marne, where this prestigious Catholic choir is located, which has crisscrossed France and the television sets.

A complicit silence?

However, for more than fifty years, this choir would have been the scene of terrible events. A former choirmaster has been convicted of several sexual assaults, two others are accused of rape. Events that would have all taken place in silence to avoid scandal.

An unprecedented investigation, which made it possible to identify around fifteen presumed victims of these three men, with rare testimonies and archives which show that one of these choirmasters could have raged from choir to choir thanks to the complicit silence of several employers.

A report by Brice Lambert, Grégory Roudier and Vincent Fajeau, for TV Presse Productions broadcast in “Special Envoy” on March 30, 2023.

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