A 3rd lady has filed a sexual assault criticism towards French singer and actor Patrick Bruel, including to a rising record of allegations towards the star which his lawyer has stated are unfounded.
Former Belgian press attaché Karine Viseur introduced that she had filed a criticism towards Bruel, associated to occasions which befell within the studios of Belgian state broadcaster RTBF in 2010, in an interview with RTL on Thursday.
Viseur’s accusation pertains to an incident she says befell when she was engaged on the promotion for the 2010 fraternal drama Comme les cinq doigts de la predominant, by which the actor was one of many co-stars.
She alleges Bruel pressed towards her inappropriately within the make-up room after which compelled her right into a restroom the place he tried to embrace her, passing his palms underneath her gown. The previous PR filed a criticism in 2010, which she then withdrew. She advised RTL that she had acquired little or no help from the native movie and TV world on the time resulting from Bruel’s fame and standing.
Viseur’s announcement comes one week after an in-depth report by investigative news-site Mediapart detailing allegations by eight girls who accuse Bruel of acts of sexual violence between 1992 and 2019.
They included Daniela Elstner, the managing director of French cinema and TV export company Unifrance, who took the daring step of going public together with her accusations and resolution to file a police criticism Bruel.
Her criticism dates again to an incident she alleges befell throughout Unifrance’s French Movie Pageant in Acapulco, Mexico in 1997, when she was working as assistant for the physique within the early phases of her profession.
Contacted by Mediapart, Bruel’s lawyer Christophe Ingrain denied the allegations leveled towards his shopper, saying Bruel had “by no means overridden a refusal” and “by no means compelled anybody right into a sexual act or relationship.”
Deadline additionally contacted Ingrain within the wake of the Mediapart report however the enquiry went unanswered. We now have re-contacted Ingrain for touch upon the newest public allegation.
Final week’s Mediapart report revealed that one other criticism for rape had been a lodged towards Bruel, associated to an incident alleged to have taken place on the Dinard British Movie Pageant in 2012, when he was president of the jury.
The accuser has declined to remark publicly on the case which is underneath preliminary investigation on the public prosecutor’s workplace within the Normandy port city of Saint Malo.
Viseur advised RTL that the truth that different girls had lodged formal complaints towards Bruel had given her the braveness to relaunch her criticism, even when the statute of limitations had handed.
“I cannot again down and if I may give a voice to different folks, to different girls in Belgium, I will probably be there to help and help them,” she stated.
