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After revealing the youtubeur’s custody to 12 million subscribers, “Liberation” publishes the testimony of eight young women. The remarks outline a pattern of control of the videographer, who seems to want to take advantage of his notoriety to do emotional blackmail and obtain sexual relations.
“Since we’ve been talking, you’ve become a kind of fantasy for me. I really like you, your face, your shapes… The fact that you’re younger, I like it too. And besides, you resist me…” Younger is the term: Norman Thavaud was then 29 years old, Louise (1), whom he met the previous year, was 18. It is with these words, sent on Messenger in 2016, that the star youtuber converses with this young fan. Until convincing her to send him pictures of her naked.
In response to one of these shots, the star with nearly 12 million subscribers on the platform tries to show herself in an intimate light: “I may seem soft and fragile in life, but in bed I like to be the complete opposite, very dominant. I like that the girl has no choice, that she is under my orders. […] That’s what I want to do to you when I see this picture.” A first meeting will take place therefollowing, which will leave a painful memory in the young girl. “I did not have the choice. I realized that I had been a victim of rape when I went out with someone else and that I was still traumatized by what had happened to me.
Louise is not the only one to describe similar facts. As l’a révélé Release, a preliminary investigation by the public prosecutor’s office