Stéphane Plaza trial: “another man than my dad…”, his convoluted explanation of his “deviations”

The trial of St&eacutephane Plaza opened on January 9 at the Paris court. St&eacutephane Plaza uses a sometimes surprising defense, such as when he spoke of his father to explain his own deviances.

Stéphane Plaza dismissedé in court in a correctional hearing for violence against two former partners – Stéphane Plaza – Celebrities at the release of the show “Les Grosses Têtes” at the RTL studios in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, April 17, 2023.

From confession to confession, St&eacutephane Plaza parks and gets lost during his trial. Initially, it was to take place on August 28 at the 10th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court. But the host did not show up due to “psychological fragility”, the hearing was postponed to January 9. Since that day, the former star host of M6 has been responding to complaints of “violence” by two of his ex-partners. Violence that he denies in very surprising ways.

To defend himself, St&eacutephane Plaza seems to have opted for a new strategy: talking about himself in a very intimate way. On the first day of the trial, she revealed that he said “I love you” to her cat, or that he had had plastic surgery, or that the dislocation and bone tear caused by an argument over one of his exes was due to his dyspraxia, a motor development disorder.

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“He says he surprised another man…”

A journalist for 20 Minutes who worked for L'Express and Le Parisien, Cécile de Sèze attended this trial. She reported the moment when Karine Le Marchand's best friend thought it was a good idea to tell the story of his mother's deception to justify his inability to be honest. “He says he caught a “man other than his father” with his mother, an adulterous relationship that taught him to think that it was better to lie than to tell the truth”, quotes the journalist.

Among the comments he made when discussing the elements of his personality, Stéphane Plaza also discussed his polyamorous life. He said he had many relationships with different women. A state of affairs confirmed by one of his exes. A witness during the hearing, she indicated that that these infidelities were the main cause of her arguments with Stéphane Plaza but that, otherwise, her relationship with him was “a peaceful relationship, (…) we argued two or three times”.

Stéphane Plaza: “They humiliate me!”

The prosecutor requests an 18-month suspended sentence against the host. The person concerned defends himself by advancing his side “pétochard” to show that he is not violent.

“I am a pétochard. I am a wimp. I am even, I can say it, I am a coward. But I am not violent. I went to associations to help women. There, the adage ‘There is no smoke without fire’ […] I am nervous. Yes! They are touching something serious deep inside me. They are humiliating me. My name is tâché. And whatever people say, they will say ‘’Stéphane Plaza, there is a doubt […] I like women. Maybe a little too much! But I have never hit”, he declared in particular.