Director and actor Philippe Caubère expressed his regret on Tuesday for having started a four-month intimate relationship with a 16-year-old minor in 2012, at the age of 61, in a press release sent to AFP.
The actor and director Philippe Caubère is the subject of a new investigation, this time for “sexual violence against a minor over the age of 15 by a person in authority”. He confirms an “intimate relationship” that “the considerable age difference” between him and her “should have led him not to start”.
“I confirm that I had an intimate relationship with P. for a few months when she was a minor (between 16 and 17 years old), and the considerable age difference between me and her should have led me not to initiate such a relationship,” he declared the man of the theatre, now 73 years old. A preliminary investigation into these facts is underway for “sexual violence on a minor over the age of 15 by an authorized person”, the Créteil prosecutor’s office indicated on Monday. This “crime (…) does not concern the question of her consent at all”, underlines Philippe Caubère.
The latter explains that he had intimate relations with the teenager between April 2012, at the age of “16 years and 11 months, and until July 2012”. He specifies that there would have been no “vaginal or anal penetration”. “I am aware that the sudden media resonance of this proceeding, which has been going on for a year and of which I have never been heard, is linked to my decision to support the actor Gérard Depardieu, in the framework of “a controversial article recently published in Le Figaro», he continues.
A rape complaint in 2018
Mr Caubère’s lawyer, Me Marie Dosé, noted on Monday that the young complainant had been contacted in 2018 by the police and had not wanted to file a complaint for these facts on that date. This complaint is “the result of a long period of reflection”, responded Me Negar Haeri, the young woman’s lawyer, underlining that “we need time when we are initially minors of 16 to understand what happened and dare to file a complaint” . complaint.” According to the two lawyers, Philippe Caubère was not heard at this stage.
A figure on the theater scene, the actor had already been the subject of a rape complaint dismissed in 2019. His accuser at the time had reported in March 2018 acts of rape committed eight years earlier, in 2010, on his person. The Créteil prosecutor’s office closed the proceedings, as “there was no element” that allowed “to corroborate the complainant’s declarations regarding the lack of consent”.
This complainant was convicted in September 2021 of defamation, a sentence which included the payment of 1,000 euros “as compensation for the moral damage” of the artist.
2024-01-09 16:24:37
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