Overview
- The Aix-en-Provence criminal court imposed the maximum 20-year term with a two-thirds safety period.
- The 47-year-old dance teacher and self-styled hypnotherapist was convicted over attacks on 14 women and privacy violations affecting five others.
- Judges ordered a 10-year socio-judicial follow-up after release with mandated treatment, bans on therapeutic practice and teaching dance in associations, and a five-year penalty if obligations are breached.
- During largely closed hearings, he confirmed prior admissions, acknowledged administering Zolpidem, and admitted using a hidden camera to record victims without their knowledge.
- He provided 17 additional names of alleged victims during the trial, and the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor signaled a forthcoming inquiry into those disclosures.