A famous French TV presenter is accused of rape and sexual assault of minors

The famous French radio and television presenter Sebastian Cauet He was accused this Friday of rape and sexual assault against four women, three of them minors, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced.

The decision of two investigating judges was made after Cauet, 52, was questioned this Friday for several hours, after which the Prosecutor’s Office presented the presenter before an investigating judge with the request for that formal accusation.

The alleged facts that Four rapes and one case of sexual abuse involving four victims are attributed to him, which occurred between 1997 and 2014.although Cauet firmly rejects all accusations.

One of the cases would be that of a rape of a minor in 2014 in Geneva (Switzerland), two other cases affect an adult woman and would have occurred at different times in 2011 in Paris and there is one more event that affects another minor and that would have taken place in 1997, also in Paris.

The sexual assault would have occurred in 2012 against another minor, according to the complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office to which it has had access Efe. The complaints presented by other women and reported in the French press could not form part of the procedure because the alleged facts would have expired.

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Cauet has been released on bail of 100,000 eurosthe obligation to periodically go to a police station, undergo treatment, not contact the alleged victims or witnesses and “not carry out certain activities to avoid repetition” of the facts, added the Prosecutor’s Office.

The presenter was removed from the radio formula microphones in November NRJ after the presentation of three complaints against him. The network then argued that it made this decision with the objective of “guaranteeing the serenity that must prevail in the face of judicial initiatives regarding very serious accusations.”

In several interviews conducted since the accusations were filed, Cauet has assured that all the accusations against him are “false”.

Cauet, a popular face in the French media, is also an actor, DJ, comedian, impersonator and singer. In the early 2000s he hosted a television show on the network TF1, audience leader in the country, which gave him great popularity and visibility. Twenty years after that, there are more shadows than lights behind the spotlight.