Daniela Elstner, managing director of French cinema and TV export agency Unifrance, has filed a police complaint against singer and actor Patrick Bruel for attempted rape and sexual assault.
The complaint, which was filed on March 12, was revealed by French investigative news website Mediapart on Wednesday as part of a wider report on allegations by eight women who accuse Bruel of sexual violence between 1992 and 2019.
Mediapart reported that a second complaint for rape had been a lodged against Bruel, with the incident alleged to have taken place at the Dinard British Film Festival in 2012, when he was president of the jury. It said the case was under preliminary investigation at the public prosecutor’s office in Saint Malo, but that the accuser had declined to comment publicly.
Contacted by Mediapart, Bruel’s lawyer Christophe Ingrain denied the allegations leveled against his client. He was quoted
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