The day after the attacks, he decided to fight back. The videographer Pierre Chabrier responded on the Twitch platform, this Friday, January 10, the day after his ex-sidekick Sylvain Levy posted a video online in which he is questioned at length.
You haven’t followed anything? We summarize the previous episodes for you: Vilebrequin was the best-known French YouTube channel in the automotive sector between 2017 and December 2023. The success was such that their founders, Pierre Chabrier and Sylvain Levy, had landed the animation of the The specialized program “Top Gear France”, broadcast on RMC Découverte.
“The number one French-speaking automotive media” abruptly stopped in December 2023, although the YouTube channel was then reaching new heights, accumulating more than 2.5 million subscribers. On good terms officially, everyone then launches their own channel, on their own. Pierre then had more than 400,000 subscribers, the second, a little over a million… before accusations against him arose.
Episode 1, the accusations of Pierre Chabrier
Because since the summer of 2024, the two ex-associates have been waging a fratricidal war via videos. In August, Pierre Chabrier implicated his former partner in a long 40-minute video. He accuses Sylvain Levy of having recovered the “1000tipla”, their flagship vehicle, for a modest sum, but also of having made several close contacts of the duo sign contracts in which clauses prohibited them from speaking with Pierre Chabrier or from working. with.
“I can no longer keep this to myself, because I suffer from it,” he said. In this speech in front of the camera, he discusses his relationship with Sylvain Levy, his behavior which he considers abusive and, in particular, his purchase of this famous Multipla, a car with increased power to reach more than 1,000 HP.
« Il (Sylvain) sold the Multipla to himself, without my consent, to benefit from it alone. I still have hope in justice, the procedure has been canceled, all with the aim of being able to do this properly,” explains Pierre. A repurchase that he considers to have been “completely devalued compared to the amount really worth” the vehicle.
Pierre Chabrier finally criticizes Sylvain Levy for having dismissed his partner from their company while she was performing functions within the production team.
Episode 2, Sylvain Levy replies
The two men have since continued their respective careers away from “drama”, Sylvain Levy having chosen in August not to speak publicly about the criticisms and accusations to which he was the subject. However, this Thursday, the 31-year-old man put a coin back into the machine. On the program: a 54-minute video interspersed with scans of formal notices, expert opinions and other administrative letters exchanged by the two men through lawyers. The goal: to “prove” as much as possible the facts he puts forward.
“Pierre stole money from the Vilebrequin account. He took out a cashier’s check for the full amount of the account and that cashier’s check is on his desk. It is all the more serious since today, as president of Vilebrequin, I cannot pay the 92,000 euros in taxes that we owe,” declares Sylvain Levy at the opening of the sequence.
Regarding the Multipla (yes, we are still on this minivan with a questionable Fiat design), the YouTuber claims to have bought it for 132,000 euros, after the vehicle was estimated by an expert based on the spare parts that It includes its wear and tear and the repairs to be carried out, because it was broken down at the time of sale.
He declares that he bought the vehicle because his ex-acolyte would have done the same with another car previously, a Volkswagen Phaeton, and, for fear that he would try to exploit the vehicle in a bar with paid entry, on the on the basis of a letter from his lawyer which provided for arrangements to this effect. At the end of the video, Sylvain Levy apologizes for his initiative “without consulting subscribers” to buy Multipla. “Maybe the right thing was to let Pierre go.”
Among many elements, Sylvain Levy details the presence among the team of videographers of several “mistresses” of Pierre Chabrier, as well as the hiring of his partner at the time within the company, when she had not not at all the profile or skills of the production position. The information provided by the thirty-year-old mentions a woman with “training as a hairdresser”, while Pierre mentioned in August the person “with the perfect profile” for the positions to be held.
-“I’m going to try to be very concise about the girlfriend’s story. It’s just Pierre who tried to hook up his girlfriend and did nothing,” laments Sylvain, evoking hours of work spent on TikTok or organizing his next vacation.
Episode 3, the shepherd’s response to the shepherdess
In a Twitch live of more than an hour (an ever-longer duration), Pierre Chabrier, 30, returned this Friday evening to the elements made public by Sylvain Levy. Accusations that he considers “defamatory”, while he maintains his decision to do everything “legally”. He also specifies that he cannot “say everything”, contractually, in what he himself calls a “third episode of Fires of love ».
The man with 460,000 subscribers on YouTube speaks of “truncated” explanations on the amount of the Multipla sale. According to him, it is necessary to subtract from the 132,000 euros “the 2,000 euros for the Phaeton, the VAT that we will return, and especially this company which is owned by two people. So when I buy from the other, I don’t buy back 110,000 euros, but 55,000 euros.” He again compares this amount to a “middle finger”.
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He also criticizes the fact that his former video partner communicated about his private life and his “infidelity”, before specifying that if he had proposed his partner to the production position, it was because Sylvain Levy had blown away first his name.
Internet users seem to have chosen a camp
Highly anticipated, Pierre Chabrier’s response has already been viewed more than 500,000 times. Several Internet users did not fail to note inconsistencies in the speech of the former member of Vilebrequin. Firstly, a story of a rejected check that Sylvain Levy would have liked to cash without the agreement of his ex-partner. As proof, Pierre shows on the screen a “reject notice” from the LCL, generated according to his statements because the account at the origin of the check would have been created without his agreement.
But by zooming in on the document shown on the screen, we can explicitly read that the rejection is caused by an “incorrect signature” on the check, and not because “the account is not validated”, as claimed Pierre Chabrier, which several accounts on social networks have highlighted.
Among the documents provided which caused discussion, there is also the request from the lawyers of Sylvain Levy, accused of “loving money” by his rival. This is a request for damages as a result of the denigrating remarks made by Pierre Chabrier against Sylvain Levy in his video in August.
To claim the sum, Sylvain Levy’s lawyers highlight the non-compliance with a protocol established on December 6, 2023 between the two men, that is to say on the eve of their official separation. This explicitly provides that both parties undertake not to make “denigrating remarks” towards each other. Pierre Chabrier is thus under fire for having broadcast this request, which several Internet users find legitimate, given the vehemence of his comments made in August.
The latter expressed his desire to file a defamation complaint after the video of his former friend Sylvain Levy. Continued in the next episode.
