Host Sébastien Cauet, targeted by three complaints for rape and sexual assault, broke his silence on Sunday to denounce “lies” and an “attempt at extortion by an organized gang”. “The words of female victims are sacred, in my case, they are lies,” he declared on BFMTV, saying he was “in pieces, devastated”.
“I’m dying not to be able to show the irrefutable evidence”
“Everything is false, everything is lies,” he repeated several times, saying he was the victim of “forgeries and maneuvers,” without ever saying whether or not he had had a consensual relationship with a young woman, Julie. , 25, who accuses her of rape when she was a minor. “These are very serious accusations,” he insisted, assuring that he had been “the first complainant” to have “filed a complaint for harassment”, before that of a young woman.
“It’s my life. We have in our hands, with my lawyers, documents to show that this is an attempt at extortion by an organized gang. Everything is in the hands of the police,” he clarified. “I’m dying, I’m dying for it, I’m complaining in the evening about not being able to show you the irrefutable evidence given to the police,” he insisted, saying he “trust the police and justice.”
Questioned about several testimonies from young women accusing the host of having abused them or of having made inappropriate gestures by using his notoriety and his dominant position, Sébastien Cauet repeated his line of defense, speaking of a “media trial” before the investigation is successful. “I am suffering these attacks and these accusations for which I am innocent,” he further declared.
Asked about his possible return to the NRJ antenna, where he has no longer officiated since November 22 by “mutual agreement” with the station, he said “hope(s) to take the microphone again, because the microphone is is life, when NRJ decides.” “Today the teams are talking to each other, I’ve been working with NRJ for 20 years, I love this brand,” he underlined. Most often referred to professionally by his last name alone, Cauet presented the show C’Cauet, on NRJ, Monday to Friday from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This show has been running since 2010, with a hiatus in 2017-2018.