Barely credible revelations… This Friday, October 20, 2023, the Parisian announced that Vincent Cerutti had been examined and that he had been the subject of an investigation for several days. The reason ? The host allegedly bit the buttocks of a frankly recruited colleague through her pants. Facts which, according to the alleged victim, date back to 2015 when the latter was at the helm of the Chérie FM morning show. A gesture that Hapsatou Sy’s companion would have repeated three months later during a group photo in front of several witnesses.
A legal action which has already caused the main person concerned to react. Through his lawyers Maîtres Lasek and Barsikian on Instagram, Vincent Cerutti responded by letting it be known that he regretted that “facts which were the subject of a secret and unfinished investigation were brought to the attention of the public”.
Claiming his innocence, the former star of the first channel “contests the legal characterization of the facts”. “The bite that he is accused of, eight years ago, was part of a game, admittedly stupid, reciprocal, taking place in the schoolboy atmosphere of a morning radio team,” we can read via the publication. If “this gesture never had the slightest sexual connotation”, Vincent Cerruti “obviously regrets having participated in these idiotic games”.
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His former colleagues testify
But while the investigation is currently continuing, around ten employees of Chérie FM as well as members of the production of Dance with the stars
have already been questioned “in the greatest discretion” according to the Parisian. Testimonies that the newspaper immediately disclosed. One of them actually reported having seen the host “push a colleague to the ground and bite her in the behind”: “She (the complainant) told me that she had not seen him arrive nor had time to react. She had hurt her knee when she fell from her chair and had to have an MRI. A few days later, Vincent gave her a bouquet of flowers to apologize.” Other ex-colleagues of Vincent Cerutti spoke of similar acts, described as “games” by an “immature” and “uncomfortable” host.
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