Singer Slimane, targeted by a complaint for sexual harassment filed by a technician on one of his tours, won the trophy for French-speaking male artist at the NRJ Music Awards on Friday evening.
This prize “has a special taste,” admitted Slimane after winning his prize. “Daughter, when you grow up, I really hope you will be proud of your daddy. (…) To my audience, sorry, from a human to many other human beings, thank you from the bottom of my heart,” he added, very moved.
This was his first public appearance since the revelation by The Parisian of a complaint from a lawyer representing a technician who claims “to have been the victim of sexual harassment (…) in December 2023, during a concert at the Zénith in Saint-Étienne”, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Saint-Étienne.
The latter told AFP on Tuesday that he was “waiting for evidence, in the form of various recordings, which this lawyer announced she had and must [lui] send”, to decide on the possible opening of a preliminary investigation.
Slimane, 35, is on tour for his Cupidon Tour. In May, he took fourth place in Eurovision with his song My love.
Revealed in The Voice on TF1 which he won in 2016, he was at the top, during his duet with the singer Vitaa, in the album sales ranking in France in 2020 with Versus.
The prize for the French-speaking female artist went to Vitaa, that of the best group in Indochina, and Pierre Garnier, revealed in the Star Academy, won two titles (French-speaking revelation and best song for Those we were), at the end of this ceremony in Cannes, broadcast on TF1.
