REPORTAGE – This Wednesday, November 6, Bruno Pelat was called to appear for domestic violence against the former Miss France, at the Paris court. At the request of the beauty queen's lawyer, a closed session was accepted by the president during the hearing.
Iris Mittenaere arrived wearing a long beige coat, her face closed on the arm of her little sister Manon Mittenaere. Before entering the courtroom, she hugged her mother Laurence Rémond. His father-in-law was also present.
Bruno Pelatslicked back hair, also entered the enclosure dressed in a gray suit. The young man with the stature of a colossus presented himself with a relative. The ex-companion of Iris Mittenaere was tried this Wednesday, November 6 in immediate appearance at the Paris court for domestic violence. Miss France 2016 filed a complaint against him at the end of September.
On the evening of September 24, the date on which the altercation allegedly took place, she appeared on the Etam Live Show with two splints on her left hand. The 22-year-old young man was to be tried on September 27 but Iris Mittenaere had wanted the hearing to be postponed. She “believes that she was not able to tell everything at the police station, but she is not psychologically capable today of coming to the hearing”had justified his lawyer, Me Emilie Bruézière. This was therefore postponed to November 6.
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At the start of the hearing, Bruno Pelat was called to the stand by the judge who laid down the facts with which he is accused. The young man allegedly carried out violence between June 12 and September 24, which did not result in any incapacity for work on Iris Mittenaere. hitting her, banging her head against the wall, pulling her arm and threatening to blow up her contracts and have her father fired “. The son of real estate developer Olivier Pelat also allegedly insulted the complainant by “ bitch “, of ” big shit “, of ” t'it follows » et « you are stupid “. He is also accused of having, on September 25, illegally used cannabis.
Former Diego El Glaoui joins the defense
At the start of the hearing, Iris Mittenaere's lawyer, Maître Brueziere, requested a closed session so that “speech is as free as possible“. She believes that “notoriety» from your client «could hinder his speech» specifying that the trial was “ highly publicized » and that « very personal facts were going to be mentioned » concerning the former companions of Miss France 2016, arguing that she was associated with one of them. She is referring here to Diego El Glaoui, entrepreneur and ex-fiancé of the beauty queen, still in business with the person concerned through a sports clothing brand called IMI.
For his part, Me D'Ollone, Bruno Pelat's lawyer, certified that he wished ” let the truth come out ” and that he wanted to promote a piece “ fundamental »: an audio that the same Diego El Glaoui sent to Iris Mittenaere in which “ he criticizes Iris for wrongly accusing him of domestic violence “, said the lawyer. In short, Bruno Pelat's defense is probably trying to demonstrate a recurring method used by the plaintiff. The chair of the hearing accepted the closed session and the journalists had to leave the room.
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Bruno Pelat is the son of Olivier Pelat, real estate developer, founder of the Euroequipments group. Godson of Liliane Bettencourt, he had been her tutor in legal affairs. At the head of a fortune estimated at 1.6 billion euros, the latter is, according to a ranking published last July by the magazine Challengein 78th place in the 500 professional fortunes of France. Bruno Pelat is also the grandson of the politician Roger-Patrice Pelat, a close friend of François Mitterrand. It appears he works in the family business.
