A figure in the theater scene, actor Philippe Caubère was indicted on Thursday February 8 for sexual assault, rape and corruption of a minor, for alleged acts against three minors, announced the Créteil prosecutor’s office, confirming information from Le Parisien.
He was the subject of a preliminary investigation for “sexual assault on a minor over 15 years old by a person in authority”, after the complaint of a young actress against the 73-year-old director and actor, accusing him of “violations sexual” in 2012 when she was 16 and he was 61.
He was placed under judicial supervision with the obligation to respond to summons from the Applied Criminal Policy and Social Reintegration Association (APCARS), the ban on carrying out an activity involving habitual contact with minors, the ban on enter into a relationship with the victims, the obligation of care.
He was taken into police custody on Tuesday and interviewed by Val-de-Marne territorial security investigators, said the prosecution, which reclassified the facts as rape and sexual assault.
Three victims
After the opening of a judicial investigation, Philippe Caubère was indicted for alleged facts which took place in 2012 for a first victim, and between 2010 and 2019 for a second, detailed the public prosecutor. He is also indicted for corruption of a minor over 15 years old on a third victim, facts which took place between 2019 and 2021, according to the same source.
At the beginning of January, the actor admitted in a press release sent to Agence France Presse to having had an intimate relationship for four months in 2012 with a minor aged 16, a relationship he said was consensual. “I confirm that I had an intimate relationship with P. for a few months while she was a minor [between the ages of 16 and 17], and the significant age difference between her and me should have led me not to initiate such a relationship,” he explained, adding that this “offense (…) in no way concerns the question of his consent.”
He had already been the subject of a complaint for rape, dismissed in 2019. His accuser at the time had denounced in March 2018 acts of rape committed eight years earlier, in 2010, on his person by the director scene. The Créteil public prosecutor’s office closed the proceedings, as there was “no element” allowing “to corroborate the complainant’s statements on the absence of consent”. This complainant was convicted in September 2021 for defamation, a conviction including the payment of 1,000 euros “in compensation for the moral damage” of the artist.
Three performance halls in Gard had canceled performances by actor Philippe Caubère, after the announcement of the opening of an investigation by the Créteil public prosecutor’s office.
