The artist Lomepal is accused of rape for facts that allegedly took place in 2017 abroad according to information from Actu Paris. The complaint filed follows a salvo of messages on the networks, which already implicated the rapper for acts of sexual assault.
If the complaint was filed in 2020, i.e. three years after the facts, the investigation has just been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office, and entrusted to the third district of the judicial police. The complainant is said to be an acquaintance of his. The facts denounced would date from 2017 and would have taken place in New York.
“The whole music industry is aware”
In recent weeks, Lomepal, 31, had already been at the heart of heated debates on the networks, after an Instagram message from Jenna Boulmedaïs, editor-in-chief of the web media Joly Môme. In her post, she revealed that she heard “ for two years, testimonies of women who have suffered inappropriate and unwanted gestures from Antoine Lomepal“. She thus denounced thesilencearound these facts, while ” the whole music industry knows“.
While Lomepal is currently on tour to promote his third albumwrong order, released on September 16, 2022, the journalist regretted the presence of the artist headlining many summer festivals, from Garorock to the Francofolies via the Vieilles Charrues. His message had been widely shared on Twitter, in particular by the French artist Pomme. Signs accusing him of sexual assault were held up last week during his concert at Nuits secrets d’Aulnoye in the North.
Lomepal, who is due to participate in the Festival Plages Electroniques in Cannes this Sunday, August 6, spoke on Instagram about the facts with which he is accused. He explains that he had lots of relationshipss”, and that for him “ like everyone else, there may be misunderstandings, different perceptions “. He denies all charges against him and claims to be ” serene in front of the justice when she questions him.
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