Playwright and writer Pierre Notte was indicted for the rape of one of his former high school theater students from 2004 to 2005, a source close to the case told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday May 6, confirming information from Libération.
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“Mr Notte strongly contests the accusations against him. He fully relies on the judicial services, in which he has complete confidence,” his lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Riolacci, responded to AFP. In an e-mail addressed to Libération, Mr. Notte said he was “devastated by the situation,” claiming to have experienced “a love story” where Alban K. was “neither terrorized, nor impressed, nor constrained, neither forced nor submissive.”
“He threatened to kill himself.”
At the time of the alleged facts, Alban K. was following the theater option led by Mr. Notte in a high school in the Paris region. His complaint, filed with civil action in September 2022 and of which AFP was informed, describes an “isolated and fragile” student, victim of harassment and suffering from the health of a sick father.
In this context, Mr. Notte’s classes “amaze” him, Alban K. confides to AFP. “At the very beginning, I had a very positive image of him, open, kind, curious, protective. » After a school trip in February 2004, where the teacher “made sure to get even closer to the student” according to the complaint, the teenager asked him to meet in a café, but Mr. Notte took him his home.
Alban K. describes a first sexual assault. He finds himself confronted “with a sexuality that exceeds him, shocks him and disgusts him” during “weekly meetings and during school holidays,” states the complaint. Alban K. remembers being “frightened” by the teacher, “a real despot”. “I was conditioned to having to prove to him that I loved him, that he was the best, or he would threaten to kill himself. »
First complaint in 2021
Their relationship continued when Alban K. entered university. He broke up in 2010 and moved to Canada. Mr. Notte was placed under the more favorable status of assisted witness for marital rape from 2005 to 2011.
Represented by Léa Forestier and Alix Aubenas, Alban K. filed a first complaint in December 2021, disgusted by the “impunity” of Mr. Notte who treads the Parisian stage with a piece “claiming to be part of the movement
Mr. Notte tells the story of a character, Not, who “plays the saints” but “masterfully weaves the web of his kidnapping of seduction” on a young person whose “child’s body” he praises, according to his own words. “Reality is not enough for him, he also has to write it, publish it and advertise it,” complains to AFP Alban K., who fears that Mr. Notte will “screw other people.” in the air ".
The complaint also cites the playwright’s diary, where he calls the teenager “my prince.” This veneration is “totally out of step” with what Alban K. claims to have experienced: “He even decided when, and how, I should wash myself, could not stand that I took the initiative. »
After the breakup, the memory of Mr. Notte causes him anxiety attacks. This “fear vanished,” he said, during their confrontation. “I thought I was going to collapse, but it was cold anger that showed itself for four hours. I was able to respond very rationally to his aberrations,” says Alban K.
