He will not be able to return to the air. Targeted by five complaints for rape and sexual assault, Sébastien Cauet has been absent from the NRJ station since November 22. A withdrawal that the Paris commercial court decided to validate this Tuesday afternoon, by dismissing the presenter against the radio management.
“This is an obvious disappointment for the Be Aware company (the Cauet production company) and we are obviously considering appealing against this decision which authorizes the lapse of contracts in the face of a media storm”, announced to the Parisian Mr. Frédéric Lamoureux.
At the time of the opening of a preliminary investigation for “rape of a minor over 15 years old” and “rape” against him, the host, who denies the facts, and the radio had mentioned a decided withdrawal ” from a common agreement “. But since then, Cauet had decided to demand his return to the airwaves.
On March 18, a hearing took place at the same Paris commercial court, during which the host demanded the execution of the contract signed between his production companies and the station, which provides for the daily broadcast of the show “C’Cauet”. A show that he has been broadcasting since 2010 (with an interruption in 2017-2018).
Cauet proclaims his innocence
Sébastien Cauet, via his lawyer Frédéric Lamoureux, then informed Le Parisien that in the absence of a return to the air, he wanted “the breach of the contract” with NRJ to be noted and therefore, the payment of compensation in result.
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In total, Cauet is the target of five complaints of rape. The latest was filed on February 8 by a 45-year-old woman, who described incidents of rape that occurred during a professional trip to the province by the radio host, at the end of the 1990s, when she was any young adult.
From the first accusations, the host has always proclaimed his innocence. He has since filed a complaint with the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office for “attempted extortion of funds by an organized gang, slanderous denunciation, forgery and uses against unnamed persons”.
