"very difficult to talk" : The poignant statement of singer Gwendal Marimoutou who accused a musical star of sexual violence

“very difficult to talk”. Gwendal Marimoutou, who remained silent for years, decided to lift the curtain on her story with a touching statement she published recently. Release. The singer passed away in 2009. France has an incredible talent later in 2014 Sound, He described the sexual violence that Stéphane Métro, a well-known man in the musical world, would inflict on him.

interpreter for the Prince of Verona Romeo and Juliet Gérard Presgurvic or Count Von Krolock vampire ball Roman Polanski also served as an artist at a famous amusement park, but also served behind the scenes. Sound and France has an incredible talent or as a teacher at the famous Aicom (International Academy of Musical Comedy). This is also where Gwendal Marimoutou claims her path crossed. “Stéphane Métro was one of the singing teachers. He just had a show project with the kids. I was going to his house to rehearse with other young people like me.”He says and states that his teacher advised the boy, who was 14 and a half at the time, to sleep in certain evenings to make travel easier.

Allegedly, the first attack took place one evening while watching comedy together. Romeo and Juliet in the hall of Prof. “Turns off the lights and starts. Mechanical, fast. He leaves the room to get dressed. And I find myself alone, a little lost. It’s always been like this”elaborates by claiming that the facts repeat themselves for 8 to 9 months. When the singer received a message from her teacher at two o’clock in the morning that caught her mother’s attention, she told the singer everything. Claiming that he discouraged his mother from doing “scandal” because he kept quiet at school “It was his dream to show” and because the alleged attacker “The musical was very important in the world of comedy”.

To forget her trauma, Gwendal Marimoutu playing the musical Simba today Lion KingHe did everything for 10 years so that “the brain has no time to think”. But in 2017, a close friend of Stéphane Métro contacted him and announced that an investigation had been launched into the facts about the minors, warning him that he himself was at risk of being heard by the police. He also asks her to defend herself during her trial. “In 2017 I was in denial, panicked for fear that it would be known. My turn will be mocked: double punishment. Also because I feel a responsibility. The feeling that my behavior may be ambiguous. I thought she was in love and had moments of bewilderment. And the guilt of not being able to reason with him “.

His trial in the juvenile brigade is an electric shock. He becomes aware of what he has been through from the person he defines as “.manipulator” Together “hunter side and one “clutch” at the youngest. “Pedokrim, we have the image of a pervert, old, nasty, but actually not at all (…) He repeated: “Think of pleasure,” “these moments matter,” “these are moments in life that you understand too. you have to live”, “you have the right.” I was shocked when the police explained to me that they were sending the same messages to other people, to very young girls, at the same time. !”

If Gwendal Marimoutou is speaking today, it’s because she wants to. “Overcome the fear of exposure”. “I have more to lose for my career than to gain”confesses his anger when he sees that the alleged attacker is still on stage. He also urges them not to have all the children.”Don’t be afraid to talk”.

Already in 1996, he was sentenced to an 18-month suspended sentence. “Sexual assault involving violence, coercion, threat, surprise”The suspect who allegedly attacked Gwendal Marimoutou will appear in court again tomorrow. he is accused “Sexual abuse of a minor by an authorized person”.

Clara Kolodny