Testimonies are piling up against psychoanalyst Gérard Miller. More than a week after a first article in which three women accused Mr. Miller of sexual assault and rape, Elle magazine published a new investigation, Thursday, February 8, with the testimony of forty-one women. Eighteen of them “refer to acts of rape and sexual assault which allegedly occurred between 1993 and 2020, the others to attempts,” explains the weekly.
In parallel with these two Elle articles, Mediapart also published an investigation on Tuesday in which ten women, including three minors, accuse the man who is also a TV columnist “of having sexually assaulted them or of having behaved inappropriately with them, including 1995 and 2016.”
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He nevertheless recognizes that "given [his] status as a 'man of power'", there could "sometimes have been between younger women and [him]" an "dissymmetry which would now seem prohibitive to me". “I made it clear from the outset that I had always ensured the consent of the women I was able to meet and rejected in the most categorical manner any sexual assault and, even more so, any rape,” he said. -he writes.
In her investigation published Thursday, She explains that Mr. Miller’s “supposed modus operandi” “is repeated from one testimony to another.” “To the vast majority of them, the psychoanalyst would have offered an appointment at his Parisian home, accompanied, most often, by a hypnosis session which, according to their stories, went awry. More serious, some were even minors at the time of the events they report,” says the magazine.
“From there, it’s a black hole.”
It publishes, among other things, the testimony of Charlotte, who was 15 years old in 2001 at the time of the events. While she was part of the audience for the show “On a tout être”, broadcast at the time on France 2 and where Mr. Miller was a columnist, the latter approached her in the audience. He offers her tickets to a show, then invites her to lunch a few days later. Once she arrived at his house, he allegedly offered her an iced tea.
“From there, it was a black hole,” she recalled to the weekly. When I wake up, I'm lying in a bed upstairs, on my stomach, in my underwear, with my pants pulled down to my ankles. He massages my back, buttocks, and also my breasts, passing his hands over my chest. I'm in a panic, I'm very scared, he says to me: “Relax, you're super tense.” » Charlotte claims to have filed a pre-complaint online, “although the facts are prescribed”, specifies Elle.
Aged 16, Ariane (first name has been changed) wrote a letter to Mr. Miller in the fall of 2001 to arrange an interview to appear in her high school newspaper. The psychoanalyst accepts and invites him to come to his house. After going there several times with friends, she was invited one day to a brunch with Laurent Ruquier, host in particular of “We tried everything” – the latter told Elle that he did not remember it.
“After lunch he would have taken her home. She has no memory of having been hypnotized, but also cannot understand how she found herself lying down… with the psychoanalyst on top of her,” says the magazine. Ariane claims that Mr. Miller allegedly forced oral sex on her and that she does not know how she got home. She is preparing to file a complaint for rape, she assured Elle.
