On March 31, plastic surgeon Claude Lévêque was indicted, in particular for rape and sexual assault on minors. He was placed under judicial supervision, we learned on Friday from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office. “Two victims are targeted in the qualifications retained, without excluding that there may be others who would declare themselves during the judicial investigation”, specified the prosecution. The 70-year-old artist is indicted for “rape of a 15-year-old minor”, “rape of a minor by a person in authority” and “sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor by a person in authority”, detailed the same source.
The investigation was opened in the spring of 2019 and entrusted to the territorial security of Seine-Saint-Denis, where the artist resides following a complaint from the sculptor Laurent Foulon. In the columns of daily The worldhe said he was raped by the plastic surgeon from the age of 10 until he was 17, in the mid-1980s. He reported these acts in a letter addressed to the public prosecutor of Bobigny in February 2019.
Two other victims and facts not prescribed
If the facts concerning Laurent Foulon are prescribed according to the Bobigny prosecution, Le Monde reveals that two new victims, two brothers, have been identified. They are from Nièvre and have known Claude Lévêque since childhood. The artist witnessed their parents’ wedding.
During their hearings, one of them mentioned sexual relations between the ages of 13 and 16, between 1997 and 2000. He said he had “been masturbated” several times by Claude Lévêque, reports The world. “I didn’t like it, but I put up with it. […] In today’s words, I’d say he had a certain hold on me […]. It was forced for me, even if there was never any physical violence, his behavior and his form of manipulation made me accept that, ”one of the victims told the police. His brother, who also noted a form of control, would have suffered his first rapes by sodomy when he was 10-11 years old. Reached by AFP, Claude Lévêque’s lawyer, Me Patrick Klugman, declined to comment.