Complaints about sexual assault Chloé Briot: Roselyne Bachelot alerts prosecutors

Culture Ministry Roselyne Bachelot announced Tuesday that it had filed a report with the attorney general following a sexual harassment complaint filed by French soprano Chloé Briot against the baritone.

The Ministry of Culture announced Tuesday that it had made a report to the public prosecutor after a sexual harassment complaint was filed by French soprano Chloé Briot against the baritone.

On August 17, in a music review "La lettre du musicien", soprano Chloé Briot was accused of sexually abusing a fellow singer who played the male lead in the production of the contemporary opera "The Flood", by Joël Pommerat.

"Ms Briot sent a complaint to the Besançon prosecutor's office regarding the facts that occurred during the events in Paris, Rennes, Nantes and Lille, because the main perpetrator, whom she is prosecuting, resides in the jurisdiction of the Besançon court," said Besançon Republican prosecutor, Etienne Manteaux. at AFP.

The singer for her part filed a complaint against allegations of defamation and Besançon parquet floors, passing her advice on to Mes Anna Branellec and Sophie Soubiran.

According to Chloé Briot, it actually happened again between October 2019 and February 2020, at the opera-comique set in Paris where the show was held, as well as at the Rennes and Nantes Operas, where it was repeated.

"The Ministry of Culture has decided to report to the Attorney General on article 40 of the Criminal Procedure Code," the minister said in a statement. This "means, in general, a strong desire to take full action on gender-based and sexual violence in music."

Warning, prevention and support work for training, production and distribution structures will thus be carried out in conjunction with the National Music Center, "involving artist representatives," the ministry added. "The results of this work will be submitted to the Minister of Culture (Roselyne Bachelot) by the end of 2020".

In an interview with the "musician's letter", the soprano said he wanted "to end the law of silence set in opera". "During training and rotations, I couldn't tell my colleague I didn't like the way he touched me," he added.
Singer fired

"Of course we had to play the sex scenes, but he kept applying the director's framework and systematically got me off the hook for" boring "and last," said the artist who held the first role in the opera.

"Terrified by the idea of ​​creating chaos in the production", the young woman fell silent during pre-screening training at the Opera-Comique.

"As the show continued in Rennes, last January in Nantes, the touch was repeated," he said. "In full appearance, he hit my right chest like plastic" and in another scene "he violently spreads my legs by resting his head on my penis," he told a music magazine.

He stated that this behavior did not change even though he reported to the director and director of the opera concerned, until Olivier Mantei, director of Opéra-Comique, fired the singer. The acquisition is planned until 2024.