At the Paris judicial court,
It is a little agitated, with a strong but rushed voice, that Stéphane Plaza defends himself at the bar. The host of M6, tried this Thursday for violence against two former companions, denies the facts with which he is accused, he who faces ten years in prison and a fine of 150,000 euros.
“It was an involuntary act, an unfortunate accident,” explains the defendant, questioned by the president. He answers questions relating to an injury he inflicted on one of the two complainants, Amandine. She suffered two dislocated fingers and a torn bone after an argument in April 2022. “I’m not saying I didn’t hurt her,” admits the TV star, who blames her dyspraxia for the injury. An illness which makes him clumsy, and because of which he claims to have already “broken a finger while saying hello”, because it prevents him from “mastering [sa] strength “. A way of minimizing the act, at least making it involuntary.
“I scream in pain, he continues”
The scene takes a completely different turn in the mouth of the complainant. She returns to this episode of anger, during which Stéphane Plaza “came out of control”. As the argument progresses, he becomes more and more physically close. “I feel his spittle on my face, I put my hands in front of my chest” when “he takes my arm and snaps with a big blow,” remembers Amandine. “I scream in pain, he continues. I completely gave up, I was in a lot of pain, she continues on the stand. I told him he was the worst man. »
According to the complainant, it doesn’t stop there. Stéphane Plaza then allegedly pinned her against the bathroom wall, pressing on her throat with his forearm. Before telling him that he is “the king of real estate, the king of M6, and that I will understand what it means to suffer”. “I didn’t push her against the wall,” denies the person concerned. He claims to have only become aware of the injuries inflicted later. He apologized by SMS, signing in particular: “the most violent man in the world”.
-“A certain climate is established”
This is the last and most violent episode recounted in the courtroom this Thursday. Violence which began with humiliating remarks. Like during a trip to Morocco during which Stéphane Plaza allegedly presented his then partner as a call girl, a “gift” reported for a man whose identity is debated. A scene described as particularly “embarrassing” by Emmanuelle Rivassoux, former collaborator of Stéphane Plaza, present during the meal. The host, as since the beginning of the affair, denies it.
The first year of this relationship, which lasted five years, everything went well. Then “a certain climate is established”, when the host tells Amandine that “people are jealous” and that she should not talk about their relationship. In reality, Stéphane Plaza was still in a relationship with a certain Diane, “the only one with whom I envisaged a future,” he explains. During his relationship with Amandine, the climate of control reached a crescendo. “It escalated, and it got worse and worse,” she testified on the stand. He had deviant behavior, increasingly violent outbursts of anger.” “She could have left straight away”, retorts the host, who believes that we “cannot destroy the life of another because we have suffered”.
“I’m a freak, a jerk”
Rejecting any “belittlement”, Stéphane Plaza affirms on the contrary to have always put Amandine “to the fore”. “I’m a freak, a jerk, a coward. I have always done everything to help women, I love women, perhaps a little too much, I have never been violent,” he still argues regarding accusations of physical violence.
Then Stéphane Plaza denounces accusations of an “organized gang”. The two complainants were in contact on social networks, with a third former partner of the defendant. The latter, who is not accused of having had “up to six relationships at the same time”, recalls the president, is convinced of being the victim of a vendetta of injured and jealous women ganged up to do so. to fall. The testimony of the second complainant was expected at the end of the afternoon.
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