(Paris) The detention of singer Jean-Luc Lahaye, suspected in particular of rape and sexual assault on minors over 15 years old, was extended Thursday morning, we learned from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The star of the 1980s, also suspected of corruption of minors and possession of child pornography images, was arrested Wednesday morning, then placed in detention in the premises of the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP).
The interpreter of Singer dad, 68, is suspected of having had sex with two teenage girls then aged 16 and 17, in 2013 and 2014, revealed The Parisian, confirmed by a source close to the file consulted by AFP.
He would have also “asked them, by internet and interposed cameras, to undress and take sexual poses”, according to the newspaper.
The detention of the singer’s daughter, heard for “witness tampering and complicity in rape of a minor over 15 years”, “was lifted (Wednesday) because of his state of health,” said the prosecution.
Two women were also arrested, suspected of “failure to denounce a crime and complicity in the rape of a minor over 15 years old”. The custody of one of them was extended, while the second was released “without prosecution at this stage”, he added.
According to the source close to the file, these are the mothers of the two victims, who would have encouraged them to have relations with the singer and who would then have asked them to keep the facts silent.
The Paris prosecutor’s office had opened a preliminary investigation in early 2021, after a new complaint from the two young girls. They had previously filed a complaint against the singer, but then retracted.
Among the two complainants, the newspaper indicates, is the teenager, then 14 years old, to whom Jean-Luc Lahaye had asked a few years ago to indulge in sex games by webcam. He was sentenced for these facts to a one-year suspended prison sentence on May 18, 2015 for bribery of a minor.
Jean-Luc Lahaye was also sentenced in 2007 to 10,000 euros ($ 14,300) for having sex with a 15-year-old minor.