The first component of the case concerns prescribed facts, argues the parquet of Paris. The second, about events in Brazil, is classified “due to insufficiently characterized offense”.
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The seniority of the facts denounced by the six complainants, dating back to the 1980s and 1990, left little doubt on the judicial outcome. Two investigations for “rapes on minors” aimed at producer Gérard Louvin and her husband, Daniel Moyne, were classified without continuation, in mid-January, the parquet of Paris, Monday, April 4th. The motivations of these rankings without continuation differ, however, according to the two “shutters” of the case.
A first survey was opened on January 21, 2021, after the complaint of Olivier A. against his uncle, producer-flagship of French television, Gérard Louvin, and against his husband, producer too. Olivier A., 48, whose testimony had been revealed by Le Monde, denounced sexual assaults and rapes suffered between his 10 and 14 years, committed by Daniel Moyne with the consent of Gérard Louvin. The two producers then denied “en bloc” these accusations.
In the wake of Olivier A., five other men had filed a complaint against the couple of producers. Their stories evoked each time the facts of about twenty years or more, involving Gérard Louvin or Daniel Moyne, or both. All of these complaints were subsequently classified by the parquet of Paris because of “prescription of public action”. “After careful consideration of the procedure, we regret to inform you that the facts you denounce are covered by the prescription, preventing that any prosecution against the implicated”, received, dated 17 January, one of the plaintiffs, in a mail that Le Monde consulted.
Complaint for defamation
The second investigation, open in the summer of 2021 and revealed by the Parisian, has been classified without continuation, this time “due to infringement insufficiently characterized”. This new procedure followed the story of a couple, before the brigade of the minors, who had been aware of the organization, by Gérard Louvin and Daniel Moyne, of “paying sexual parties” with children of Favelas, Rio.
Contact by Le Monde, M e Céline Beckerman, Daniel Moyne’s lawyer, expressed “great relief” of his clients. “They were soiled and dragged into the mud by the media court. Justice triumphs.” It recalls that a defamation complaint was filed, aimed at the accusations of sexual parties in Brazil.
M e Pierre Devisson, the lawyer of the six complainants, esteem with the world that “we must not be fooled. The classification without a continuation for the complaints filed only intervened for a Only ground: the prescription. My clients – who still wait for non-prescribed victims are still reflected – reserve the right to seize the dean of investigating judges. “