There are experiences that we will not forget. Wednesday 3 February 2021, Jean-Luc Lahaye, guest on the set of Non Stop People, spoke of his six months in prison to which he was sentenced when he was younger. The artist, who has been at the heart of many controversies, had been incarcerated in Fresnes prison. The star in a relationship with a certain Paola keeps a very painful memory of this passage, as he confided to Evelyne Thomas in an extract unveiled by our colleagues from Gala. A conviction which followed many "bullshit" on his part. "It was at the time with the friends of the Dass, as I was one of the youngest, I was often influenced by the older ones. Our way of life was more to borrow cars, but we didn't sell them, we left them in an abandoned street, just to get around, to go pick up the babes ", he said.
Then, one day, Jean-Luc Lahaye gets caught. “As I had a lot of files vis-à-vis the police at the time, bullshit, fights, the judge did not have the tolerance that I would have liked him to have. sent to Fresnes ", he says, forever marked by this experience. "It was very hard. Not the fact of being locked up (…) but it is the fact of being in a spirit of combativeness because the young people in prison, the cells are open and there are always some guys who wanted to take the 'ascending over others, and it always ended in a fight ", reveals the one who adds to have been often locked up "au mitard, that is to say, the prison of the prison ".
"He was afraid to go to jail"
Later, Jean-Luc Lahaye, the famous singer of the 1980s, was sentenced in 2007 to 10,000 euros in fines for having had sex with a minor under 15. In May 2015, the court sentenced Jean-Luc Lahaye to a one-year suspended prison sentence for bribing minors after asking a 14-year-old girl to participate in sexual games with him through interposed webcams. A series of convictions which pushed the singer to "calm", as his manager confided in the columns of Parisian in November 2017. Olivier Kaefer defended the one he is very close to: "I like spending time with Jean-Luc. He's not a bad guy, he lives like a teenager. And he calmed down, he was afraid of going to jail", he said.
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