Bruno Vandelli: after Yanis Marshall’s rape complaint, five other students accuse him

Bruno Vandelli: after Yanis Marshall’s rape complaint, five other students accuse him

The choreographer, currently director of a dance training center based in Cannes, is accused by some students and teachers of sending inappropriate text messages and rubbing his penis against several former students, most of them minors. The latter handed themselves over to our colleagues at Le Parisien.

The effect of a bomb. Last January, Tele-Hook’s former dance teacher Star AcademyYanis Marshall denounced on Instagram the sexual violence allegedly inflicted on him by the former choreographer of Pop stars, Bruno Vandelli, when he was 14 years old. After her courageous statement, Yanis Marshall filed charges of “aggravated rape,” “sexual assault” and “corruption of minors” against her former mentor.

According to revelations by Parisian, his story would be anything but isolated. The newspaper revealed on Thursday 29 February the testimonies of five other students who accuse Bruno Vandelli of “deviant behavior”.

A letter read aloud

According to information from Parisian, it all started with a letter from a former student, Mathieu, read publicly in front of around thirty people last December within the walls of the dance training center directed by the choreographer. Mathieu accused Bruno Vandelli of sending him “a rain of perverse text messages” and for rubbing his penis against him during training. After hearing his testimony, several students left the classroom in tears, and the teachers resigned the next day.

According to the Grasse prosecutor’s office, Mathieu’s mother, “ stunned », then filed a complaint against the choreographer, who was present at the reading of the letter but did not react immediately. A few days later, he sent a letter to the students’ parents, consulted by Parisianin which he said he had been “traumatised” by “Absolutely monstrous words” while him “He has been training dancers for three generations in Cannes [n’]having never had a single problem in 25 years.”


A statement denied by the testimony of Yannis Marshall, given a week later on social networks, and by those of the five young people then interviewed by Le Parisien.

A consolidated operating procedure

Every story is the same. “As soon as Vandelli sees a cute baby, he sees him and doesn’t let him go” one of the alleged victims testifies, which he denounces in the columns of “Ten years of influence” in Paris.

According to testimonies, it is always the same operating mode: “Bruno Vandelli surrounds himself with a “court”: his favorite students – always boys – are placed in the front line, the others behind. “They are flattered to be chosen. They then become his prey. » This is followed by persistent text messages, inappropriate comments, touching, imposed or requested massages…

Bruno Vandelli considers himself “victim of media lynching”. He claims to have filed a defamation complaint against Yannis Marshall and claims to have it in his possession “500 testimonials” that demonstrate “his work as a pedagogue and teacher”. After a brief withdrawal from school, he returned to teaching, despite an investigation opened by the Grasse prosecutor’s office, entrusted to the judicial police of Nice.


Add Madmoizelle to your favorites on Google News so you don’t miss any of our articles!

Source: Madmoizelle

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Top Trending

Related POSTS