INFO FRANCEINFO. The actor and director Philippe Caubère targeted by an investigation for “sexual assault on a minor”

A young actress filed a complaint against him a year ago. Philippe Caubère was, in 2018, the subject of a first complaint, for rape, from another actress. Complaint which for lack of elements had been closed without further action.

The actor and director Philippe Caubère, known in particular for having played Marcel Pagnol’s father in the film The glory of my father, is the target of a new investigation, according to information from franceinfo Monday January 8. An investigation into “sexual assault on a minor over 15 years old by a person in authority” and opened by the Créteil public prosecutor’s office is open. A young actress filed a complaint against him a year ago.

The facts denounced date back to 2012

The complainant, Camille (not her real name), is now 27 years old. She denounces sexual abuse when she was 16 years old in 2012, and Philippe Caubère 61 years old. The plaintiff was a high school student, did theater, dreamed of making it her career. The actor, 45 years her senior, whom she considered as a possible mentor, arranged meetings with her to talk about theater and cinema.

But quickly, according to the young woman, there was a rapprochement which she was unable to oppose. In her studio in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne), she accuses him of having abused her emotional immaturity during several meetings that she was asked to keep clandestine and not to report to her parents . This for a year, according to Camille, who mentions kisses, fellatio and penetration. She also remembers him telling her about another teenage girl with whom he had the same type of intimate relationship at the time. A hearing with Philippe Caubère was planned for last June. In the end, it still hasn’t happened.

Philippe Caubère already targeted by a complaint for rape in 2018, dismissed

The investigation is still ongoing, according to the Créteil public prosecutor’s office. It is entrusted to the territorial security of Val-de-Marne. Philippe Caubère, through the voice of his lawyer, recognizes an intimate relationship but no penetration. Me Marie Dosé recalls that the young woman who is now the complainant had been called by the police in 2018 when the actor had been the subject of another complaint, this one for rape, and that at the time she did not did not wish to take legal action, citing consensual relationships. In a press release released Tuesday January 9, Philippe Caubère recognizes that “the significant age difference between her and me should have led me not to enter into such a relationship.”

Camille’s lawyer, Me Negar Haeri, specifies for her part that her client did not file a complaint for rape but for sexual assault of a minor. “And with such a criminal qualificationshe explains, the question of consent or non-consent is of no importance.”. Philippe Caubère, signatory of the collective forum in support of Gérard Depardieu on December 25, has always claimed “a very free sexual and sentimental life” – defining itself as “client of prostitutes”, notably. In 2018, he was the subject of a first complaint, for rape, from another actress. Complaint which for lack of elements had been closed without further action. “I am aware that the sudden media coverage of this procedure, which has lasted for a year and for which I have never been heard, is linked to my decision to provide my support to the actor Gérard Depardieu”, declares Philippe Caubère.