Overview

• After two days in police custody, the 77-year-old was presented to an investigating judge in Paris and placed under formal investigation.
• The case covers alleged acts from 2000 to 2020, including three rapes of minors over 15 between 2000 and 2004 and offenses involving adult women in 2019 and 2020.
• He was also designated an assisted witness for a separate alleged rape of a minor over 15 said to have occurred in 2000.
• Judicial supervision bars him from practicing as a psychoanalyst, from activities involving minors, and from television work, with mandatory treatment and a €65,000 bond.
• Prosecutors report about twenty women have given accounts since early 2024 describing similar scenarios, including after hypnosis sessions or at his Paris residence, and he denies wrongdoing.