After more than 18 months of absence, the host Sébastien Cauet, accused of sexual violation and aggression, returned to Radio in Europe 2 on Monday, April 28, the day of his 53 years.
The presenter led by five complaints for acts of sexual and sexist violence, which he disputes, was fired from the NRJ antenna at the end of 2023. He must encourage Europe 2 am to 11 am to 11 am surrounded by his former collaborators Stouf, poor and corentin. It is successful at this time to Benjamin Castaldi, who produced hearings considered unsatisfactory.
“We are back, Hello. I say that I am back and yet, almost 20 years have passed that I had not returned to this beautiful house,” said the host, who had already officiated in Europe 2 from 2001 to 2004, in the preamble.
“To start this program, I would like to make a big kiss for the tens of thousands of love messages that I received on the networks, which told me thanks for returning,” he said.
“Our only mission with the team will be woke up every morning, laugh, because life is not necessarily fun every day, because you can have problems and you can count on us to wake up and change your ideas,” he added.
Back to the antenna announced in mid -April
Sébastien Cauet has been accused since May 2024 for rapes and sexual assault, which accused four women, between 1997 and 2014. Three of them were teenagers at the time of events.
Suspended in November 2023 by NRJ, who broke his contract in January 2024, the host obtained the right to work, provided there is no hearing in his study. The Europe 2 radio announced in mid -April the arrival of Cauet to its antenna.
The animator’s lawyer, Jade Dousselin, also said that his client had filed a complaint for attempted extortion and defamatory complaint. A case that will be judged in Nanterre on June 26, according to Le Parisien.
Refer to the public of Europe 2
For Europe 2, one of the radios of the Lagardère Group, the challenge is quickly straightening to a audience fallen into disturbing levels. According to mediametrie, between January and March, the cumulative hearing fell to 1.5%, less than half a point for a year.
“We reposition Europe 2 in January 2023, with a change in the musical positioning in June, a change in the morning in September. There are no good results in this wave. The morning animated by Benjamin Castaldi did not take,” said Lagardère Radio general director, Constance Benqué, AFP.
The general director of the Lagardère musical radios, Alain Liberty, praised a “real popular artist in perfect adequacy with the project and ambitions we show for Europe 2”.
“Stantling, it’s to vomit”
But from the victims, this return from Cauet to the antenna is jumping. “It seems absolutely unpleasant. (…) There is an instruction in progress. Deontologically, that Europe 2 wants to put it in the antenna is to vomit, it is disgusting,” says one of them with the Parisian.
The Metomodia Association, which supports the plaintiffs of this case, significantly launched a request on April 24 to request the suspension of the host at the branch provided that the legal procedures are underway.
“It is the era of predators who has just ringed,” says Caroline Barel, vice president of the Metoomedy Association with Oueest France magazine, remembering that the Lagardère Group, which belongs to Bolloré, also maintains the antenna of CNews Jean-Marc Morandini, which condemns in the first case and in the appeal of the sexual prayer and corruption of the minimum.
“With Cauet, we persist and signed. We are told: ‘Circular, there is nothing to do.’ He tells us that in a society, whenever he does not touch the wallet, he goes,” he continues.
This Monday, April 28, several female activists also went to the Lagardère facilities to protest against the arrival of Cauet to Europe 2 “equipped to treat non -recyclable waste in free proliferation,” they said in X.
Source: BFM TV
