This Tuesday, May 7 marks a victory for the NRJ group in the dispute between it and Cauet. The former star host and his group Be Aware had taken the radio to court last January, “to obtain primarily the forced execution of their agreements and the possibility of returning to the air”, according to his lawyer, Maître Frédéric The lover. But the Commercial Court ruled: NRJ is not obliged to put the host back on the air, nor to compensate him. According to the courts, this return to the air has become impossible, the conditions for normal execution of the host’s contract no longer being met.
In a press release, the NRJ group welcomed the decision: “The Commercial Court held that Sébastien Cauet’s return to the air was no longer possible so that the conditions for normal execution of the contract were no longer possible. were permanently more united. It is therefore right that NRJ was forced, in January 2024, to note the obsolescence of the agreements concluded with the host and his companies for this program. Consequently, the Court dismissed Sébastien Cauet and his companies’ claims for compensation.”
As a reminder, Sébastien Cauet withdrew from the broadcast last December following the opening of an investigation by the Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor’s office for “rape of a minor aged 15 or over” and “rape », after the complaint of a young woman of 25 years old.