The date of the trial is not yet known. One thing is certain: it will take place well before the Assize Court and will last several weeks, the time to hear all the victims. Suspected of rape, the former penn-soner of Bagad d’Auray (Morbihan) will be tried for six acts of rape and two acts of moral harassment, learned 20 minutes with the Rennes public prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the Telegram.
Placed in pre-trial detention on October 25, 2019 after two initial complaints, Loïc Le Cotillec was released in April 2021 to be assigned to residence and placed under electronic surveillance. The investigation started in 2019 following the complaint of two young women, including a former musician from bagad.
A procedural appeal
Considered a prodigy of Breton music, the conductor explained to investigators that those who present themselves as his victims were all “girlfriends”. “Perhaps there were inappropriate behaviors. We will have to ask ourselves questions, ”said his lawyer. The 26-year-old man was visibly suffering from alcohol addiction.
The Rennes prosecutor’s office appealed the order on November 9 for a procedural reason. “It aims to regularize a failure to rule (on facts for which the respondent had been placed under the status of assisted witness for an act of rape, an act of sexual assault and an act of sexual harassment) and not to contest the number or the nature of the dismissal qualifications, these being in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution”, specifies Philippe Astruc.