French Prosecutors Seek Sex Abuse Charges Against Actor Patrick Bruel
Prosecutors seek charges over nine allegations, while 13 older complaints are being re-examined in the case against the French singer-actor.
- On Wednesday, French pop icon Patrick Bruel appeared before investigating judges in Paris, where prosecutors requested he be charged and remanded in custody over nine allegations of rape and sexual assault committed between 2010 and 2019.
- The hearing follows an in-depth investigation by Mediapart detailing allegations by eight women, making Bruel the latest French celebrity to face investigators in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
- Authorities are re-examining 13 dismissed complaints, including four 2019 allegations by masseuses, while lawyers for Bruel maintain the star is "at the disposal of the justice system" to demonstrate his innocence.
- Mounting allegations have impacted the 67-year-old's career, forcing him to cancel a French concert tour this summer; Canadian events organiser Gestev cancelled three Quebec concert dates scheduled for year-end.
- Investigating magistrates are expected to decide today whether to charge Bruel and remand him in custody, determining the outcome of the ongoing judicial procedure initiated by prosecutors.
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For more than an hour and a half, he has been in front of four investigating judges in an office of the Nanterre court. The prosecutor's office requested that he be placed in pre-trial detention after the charges brought by nine alleged victims. The charges against him were allegedly committed between 2000 and 2019 in France, Switzerland and Belgium: three rapes, but also two attempted rapes, sexual assaults and sexual harassment. (Police, justi…
On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, the Nanterre Public Prosecutor's Office requested that Patrick Bruel be charged with the investigation of charges of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. In a statement sent to Franceinfo, Flavie Flament responded to this new judicial stage.
After 48 hours of police custody, the 67-year-old artist is presented to judges this Wednesday, "for rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment of nine victims, committed between 2010 and 2019", according to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The French singer is targeted by charges of rape and sexual assault by nine women.
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