Host Sébastien Cauet is the target of a complaint for rape

This complaint was filed for rapes “which were allegedly committed between 2014, when the victim was a minor, and 2022, in Paris and Switzerland”, according to the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor’s office.

A woman filed a complaint for rape against radio host Sébastien Cauet, Saturday November 18 at the Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône gendarmerie (Ain), franceinfo learned on Tuesday from the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor’s office, confirming information from The Obs.

According to the Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor’s office, this complaint was filed for rape “which would have been committed between 2014, when the victim was a minor, and 2022, in Paris and Switzerland”. “This complaint is currently being processed”continues the prosecution, which specifies that “not having yet made a decision on its direction”.

A complaint from the host for slanderous denunciation

Tuesday evening, Simon Clémenceau, Cauet’s lawyer, announced in a press release that the host had filed a complaint of “slanderous denunciation against the author of these serious unfounded accusations with the public prosecutor of Nanterre”. Cauet claims to be “at the disposal of the justice system and the police services, in which he has full confidence”. He says he is ready to bring “with all serenity the elements likely to demonstrate the inanity of the accusations brought against him”.

Simon Clémenceau adds that Cauet “cannot tolerate such allegations being relayed without waiting for justice to rule”. He assures that he “will systematically pursue media outlets that publish defamatory remarks against him”.

A first complaint from the host for harassment in mid-November

The star host of NRJ Sébastien Cauet, accused for several weeks on a person by means of an online public communication service”, franceinfo learned from the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, the first Tuesday, November 14 from the Paris public prosecutor’s office which relinquished for the benefit of the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, the second on Tuesday November 15 at the Boulogne-Billancourt police station.

These two complaints are the subject of an investigation by the Brigade for the Repression of Delinquency Against the Person (BRDP). “I am deeply shocked by the accusations made against me here. These allegations are completely false”had attacked Cauet on X. In mid-October, an a minor.

Sébastien Cauet, 51, presents the show “C’Cauet” on NRJ. The host has been a known figure in radio humor for thirty years and his debut on Fun Radio in the 1990s. At the peak of his popularity, he presented on television on TF1 the talk show in the second part of “La Methode Cauet” evening, from 2003 to 2008.