Before being indicted for “rape of minors”, Jean-Luc Lahaye had already been tried in 2007 for “sexual assault” on a 14-year-old girl. In light of the new charges against the 68-year-old singer, who has been in pre-trial detention for a month now, this victim has just granted a new interview to the Parisian of this Sunday, December 19, 2021.
Twenty years after the events, “Nadia” (an assumed name) told her story with emotion from the Hérault, where she is trying to rebuild herself. When she crossed paths with Jean-Luc Lahaye, she was a teenager in difficulty, who ran away from home: “I had nothing to do there, but other than Monday, every night I was in a nightclub. “In Paris, she notably frequents Studio 287, where the singer has his habits since he is the owner. On December 31, 2002, she finds him in the VIP area:”He offers me champagne, explains that he is the boss. He invites me to visit the backstage of the box … At 14, it’s silly, but we want to play big, so I accept“, she recalls.
This is when the interpreter “catch it“.” Nadia “explains having tried to struggle, before feeling”totally destitute“. After this evening, the teenager met Jean-Luc Lahaye a few times in the same club but he”act as if nothing had happened“. It was only two years later that she decided to file a complaint:”The police officers from the minors’ brigade were very violent, said vulgar words to me, asked me if I was playing the whore …“Finally, in January 2007, Jean-Luc Lahaye and one of his friends were tried for” sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor. “The star was then fined 10,000 euros:”When he was able to come out free, I put the words on what I had lived. I’ve understood that I had been raped and that justice had just slapped her on the fingers. “
I hope we can believe these girls
After this first conviction, the career of Jean-Luc Lahaye does not suffer in any way from this passage before the judge, on the contrary. This “star 80” is experiencing a resurgence of popularity on stage and in the cinema. Nadia as for her, is “at the bottom of the abyss“. She confides:”It drives me crazy, it’s not fair. After two hours in court he resumed his career when he had crushed my life. “The young woman then tries to forget this dark history in drugs and she ends up living in the street, for almost ten years.
Now trying to rebuild in the Hérault, she closely follows the progress of the new case which has led Jean-Luc Lahaye in pre-trial detention, he who is now suspected of raping two teenage girls. “I hope he will stay there [en prison]. For me it’s over, but we have to prevent it from starting over“Drug-free, she even plans to testify if necessary.”I hope we can believe these girls. Lahaye is going to say that they were consenting, he is going to denigrate them, pass them off as easy girls … They are kids, you have to support them because there will inevitably be difficult times.“
Jean-Luc Lahaye remains presumed innocent of the facts with which he is accused until the final judgment of this case.