Gérard Miller accused of rape and sexual assault: a preliminary investigation opened

The Paris prosecutor's office announced that an investigation was carried out opened after the accusations of rape and sexual assault targeting the famous psychoanalyst Gérard Miller.

After receiving six reports from women, the Paris prosecutor's office has just announced the opening of a preliminary investigation into "rape and sexual assault, sometimes against minor victims" targeting therapist G&rard Miller, according to information from Elle magazine. The television star is now the target of six complaints for acts which allegedly took place between 1995 and 2005. The prosecution été informed "by mail or at a police station followed by a report to the public prosecutor's office" indicates the media. The investigations were carried out entrusted to the Crime Suppression Brigade made to the person (BRDP).

As a reminder, last January 31, Elle magazine revealed in an investigation that three women accused Gérard Miller of rape and sexual assault while they were under hypnosis. The main interested party had then denied the facts in a press release transmitted to BFMTV, however recognizing relationships and encounters which are part of "an unequal relationship".

Tuesday, February 6, it was Mediapart's turn to make new revelations. The current news site reported the testimony of 10 women, aged 16 to 10 years old. 21 years old at the time of the facts that they accuse the psychoanalyst of. Facts which would have taken place between 1995 and 2016. Gérard Miller was then between 47 and 68 years old. Today 'oldé At the age of 75, he wasé accused in these different testimonies of sexual assault or of having engaged in inappropriate behavior. Mediapart underlined that  that among the 10 new women who claimed to be victims, three were minors at the time of the events. One of them, aged 21, At the time (in 1995), would have addressed a complaint on February 6, 2024.

Contact by Mediapart, Gérard Miller did not again contest' none of these encounters, and affirmed not to “question for a moment the emotion, the anger and the suffering” quot; of these women. However, he denied having coerced them and assured that he had always obtained their consent. The psychoanalyst, on the other hand, confided; having underestimated &agrav; At the time the "dissymmetry" who exists between him, a man of power, and these younger women.

This Thursday, February 8, She revealed that'à Following his investigation, no less than 41 women had contacted him. the reaction. By discovering the testimonies, they would have had the impression of reading their story. Among them, 18 would have accused the psychoanalyst of rapes and sexual assaults occurring between 1993 and 2020. The others would rather have mentioned attempted attacks. For the majority, they told having had an appointment at the Parisian home of G&rard Miller with, in most cases, a hypnosis session. As previously revealed, Mediapart, some of the alleged victims are believed to be minors. Some have also accused him of for having shown a certain interest in their virginity. eacute;acted à the announcement of the publication of these new testimonies. 

What the first three women who implicated G&rard Miller say

The magazine surveyElle, published at the end of January, brought together numerous testimonies on the actions of G&rard Miller. The first collected was that of the journalist and director Muriel Cousin. ; 1990 when she was 23 years old and began her career as a freelancer for the magazine & ;quot;Globe".  It's & the editorial staff of the media that they meet and when the psychoanalyst announces that he is looking for help for an article on hypnosis, Muriel Cousin volunteers. She declared with'Elle having suffered touching during this hypnosis session. She also explained' : "It did not come to me " the mind to file a complaint. À At the time, this was not happening."

The second wife à to file a complaint against Gérard Miller had confided to the magazine Elle that his assault had occurred in 2004, when she was 19 and Mr. Miller was 55. The psychoanalyst would have invited the young woman and a friend à his home after meeting there. the end of a recording of the showWe tried everything on France 2. G&rard Miller would have proposed  a hypnosis session for the two young women. The young woman tells the magazine about her inability to &agrav; react to the gestures of the psychoanalyst, after the departure of her friend, saying she was still in a daze.

Other testimonies describing similar actions have been reported. collected by Elle and date of the time when G&rard Miller served as screenwriter. Several actresses like Anna Mouglalis or Cécile Rebboah and others who have pre' eacute;féré to remain anonymous toldé how they found themselves in meetings that they considered inappropriate with the screenwriter. I regularly ask actresses to help them achieve their goals. prepared for their role or offered them hypnosis sessions.

The third woman who accused G&rard Miller of sexual assault had been prosecuted eldest son's babysitter of the psychoanalyst. The facts are dated from 1993 when the young woman was 19 years old. She affirmed   with She also suffered touching while Gérard Miller had to' oacute;posé home by car. 

One of the youngest women who testified was a high school student at the time of the events. She would have contactedé G&rard Miller for an interview for the high school newspaper. She then assuredé that the psychoanalyst would have forced him to &agrav; give him a blowjob. 

GéGérard Miller, psychoanalyst and columnist on France Inter and France 2, screenwriter and also professor of philosophy at the University Paris-8, denies all the accusations against him. Interrogatedé by Elle, he declaredé "never abusedé sexually from anyone, and under no circumstances.