New twist in the Jean-Luc Lahaye affair. While the 69-year-old singer has been in pre-trial detention for almost three months, the mother of one of the two young women who filed a complaint against him – for rape and sexual assault – has just been indicted in turn. Information confirmed by the latter’s lawyer with AFP, Thursday, January 27, 2022.
“After a painful interrogation, my client was indicted for non-denunciation of a crime“, said Me Vincent Demory in a press release.She does not intend to dispute it. She was prepared for it and understands its full significance.“. For her part, the lawyer for the two plaintiffs added: “My client recalls her affection for her motherThe hearing of the mother of the other complainant, who was also initially summoned for an indictment by the judge in charge of the investigation, was postponed “sine die” due to her state of health. .
The two mothers are suspected of not having denounced a crime of which they were aware. Their daughters had, then teenagers, had relations with Jean-Luc Lahaye. Among the two plaintiffs is the teenager to whom the star of the 1980s had asked to indulge in sex games by webcam, when she was 15 and 16 years old. He had been sentenced for these facts to a one-year suspended prison sentence on May 18, 2015 for corruption of a minor.
Jean-Luc Lahaye was indicted on November 5 in Paris, in particular for “rape and sexual assault of minors over the age of 15”, after the denunciations of the two young women, born in 1998 and 2000. The alleged facts, which he disputes, would have started in 2013. Already convicted for offenses with minors in 2007 and 2015, he was placed in pre-trial detention. Another key figure in this case: the singer’s daughter, Margaux, 37 years old. On Monday, the latter was also indicted for “tampering with witnesses” in this investigation, because she is suspected of having pressured the complainants to keep quiet.
The two complainants also filed a complaint in December for invasion of privacy, violation of professional secrecy and secrecy of the investigation following the publication of elements of the procedure in the press.
Jean-Luc Lahaye remains presumed innocent of the charges against him until the final judgment of this case.