French authorities are investigating French singer-songwriter Slimane, who came in fourth place in the competition, for sexual harassment. Eurovision 2024after admit for processing the complaint filed at the end of October by a technician who worked with the artist on one of his tours.
According to the BFMTV channel, the Saint-Étienne Prosecutor’s Office (southeast France) opened an investigation against Slimane for acts of “sexual harassment aggravated by the use of an electronic medium“.
The reported events would have occurred on the night of December 17, 2023 in the city of Saint-Étienne, where the actor and contestant on several television programs gave a concert.
The coach says that during an after-party, at the Zénith hall in Saint-Étienne, Slimane pinned him against a wall and forced him to hug him.
The singer of Algerian descent, whose full name is Slimane Nebchi, told the coach that he wanted to have sexual relations with him.
The complainant rejected him, explaining that he was not interested, that he was heterosexual and that he was married, but the singer of songs like Avant toi either Panama He insisted and put him in his dressing room, until the technician left abruptly.
After those events, during the team’s night trip, the artist dedicated himself to sending them “a multitude of messages and videos of a sexual natureof a pornographic nature”, according to the plaintiff’s lawyers.
The affected person informed his company of the events the following morning and It withdrew its technicians from the tour setin addition to informing the company that produces the shows of the Cupidon Tour.
Slimane, 35, in addition to representing France at Eurovision this year with the song Mon Amourwas winner of the French edition of the contest The Voice in 2016.