After the first investigation published by “Elle”, 41 women came forward to journalists to provide their testimony against Gérard Miller. Three accuse him of rape and fifteen of sexual assault.
On January 31, the magazine Elle published a long investigation in which several women accused the psychoanalyst of sexual assault and rape during hypnosis sessions. Afterwards, Mediapart published another investigation in which ten women, including three minors, say they were victims of Gérard Miller, accusing him of sexual assault or inappropriate behavior between 1995 and 2016.
Predation
“A cohort of women who do not know each other, but who, for many, echo the same scenario: that of a man the age of their father approaching very young girls, sitting in the audience of his shows or moving around in his personal entourage”tell the journalists of Elle. The methods described are all similar and match the stories published in the first investigation of the Elle or in the columns of Mediapart. After approaching them, Miller would have first invited them to come to his home, then to participate in a hypnosis session.
Several of the alleged victims are minors at the time of the alleged acts, such as Muriel Sachs, daughter of the director and columnist Alain Sachs, whom Miller allegedly tried to rape after having hypnotized her when she was 17 years old. Another woman said she was 15 years old when she was sexually assaulted by the then 45-year-old man. The facts allegedly occurred during a vacation spent at Club Med in Tunisia, while the teenager was having a romantic relationship with the stepson of Gérard Miller who was also hypnotized in another room during the attack.
Gérard Miller denies the accusations
Following these testimonies, the psychoanalyst spoke briefly on February 7 (before the publication of this new investigation) via his account to deny the accusations, while recognizing the asymmetrical nature of certain relationships he maintained in the past: “while recognizing that it was obvious to me today, but not at the time, that there could sometimes have been differences between younger women and me, given my status as a “man of power”, an asymmetry 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 frequent and rejected in the most categorical way possible any sexual assault and, all the more so , any rape.”
Several women confided that they were going to file a complaint against Gérard Miller.