The Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor’s office announced the opening of a preliminary investigation into rape after the complaint filed by the young woman, whose testimony franceinfo collected. The host denounces false accusations for his part.
“He said to me: ‘Sit on the sofa and let me listen to your demo.’ At that moment, he unbuttoned his pants, looked me straight in the eyes and said: ‘First, can you give me oral sex?'” This is what Julie said about radio host Sébastien Cauet, during a telephone interview with franceinfo, Wednesday November 15. At that time, the young woman had not yet filed a complaint but she published, two days earlier, screenshots on the social network X of what she presented as a conversation with the host, during which he wrote sexual remarks to her.
Since then, a preliminary investigation for “rape of a minor over 15 years old and rape” was opened on Wednesday November 22, following a complaint for rape filed on Saturday November 18 at the Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône gendarmerie. (Ain). The investigations focus on “several incidents of rape allegedly committed between 2014 and 2022, partly while the victim was still a minor”specifies the public prosecutor of Bourg-en-Bresse to franceinfo.
Wednesday, on the social network “tested by the accusations that are not only ignominious, but above all false”brought against him. “I have proof of my innocence, my lawyers will take it to the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office”continues the voice of NRJ for more than 10 years in the same message.
“Abominable horrors”
During this telephone interview, the young girl assures that Sébastien Cauet invited her to join him in Switzerland in a hotel:
“He asked me to go up to his room to listen to my model radio. I was 15, I didn’t see the danger.”
Julie, accuser of the host Cauetat franceinfo
According to the young woman’s story, the host then asks her about him “give fellatio”. Julie specifies that her sister and her brother-in-law had made the trip with her, but that they did not go up to the room. “My sister called me ten times when I was with him”adds Julie, who claims that upon seeing these calls, Cauet accompanied her to the hotel lobby. “He told me: ‘We’re going to go down, because your sister is going to ask questions.’ As if I consented to all of this.” she remembers.
Subsequently, Julie claims to have received several messages “with abominable horrors” from the host, whom she saw again several times, in different places in France, including “in his studio.” “Come with me in the bathroom, I’m sure you suck well, that you do things well”, he would have said to him like this.
“I told him I didn’t want to, that I didn’t want to.”
Julie, accuser of host Sébastien Cauetat franceinfo
Julie says that another time, when she found herself with him “in an underground car park”the animator has, “once again”, “took out his penis” And “asked to give him oral sex.” She claims she left the scene in a hurry. In 2018, when she went to her apartment, she again reported that Cauet touched her breasts. “I lost my temper and left”, she continues. It was in 2020 that she said she cut all contact. “He went very far. I said: ‘It’s over'”adds Julie who does not want “no longer experience this”.
Contacted again by franceinfo, Tuesday November 21, after filing a complaint, Julie assures that she initially did not say the word “rape” during our first telephone interview because she had “enormously ashamed”. Something she did, during a second interview, evoking this fellatio performed in Switzerland, without her consent.
If the Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor’s office mentions facts from 2014, Julie, “radio enthusiast”, claims to franceinfo to have “had the opportunity” to meet Cauet for the first time at 15, on January 15, 2015, “after winning a competition”. However, on her Facebook profile, the first photo where she appears with Cauet dates from November 16, 2014.