The cellist Jérôme Pernoo will have to answer at the end of May before the criminal court of a recent complaint for sexual harassment and sexual assault on a minor of 15 years by person having authority, indicated Monday the parquet floor of Paris, confirming information from the Parisian. A renowned musician, born in 1993, accuses his former teacher of the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris (CNSMDP) of having touched him when he was a teenager, according to the newspaper.
Contacted, the lawyer for this fourth plaintiff could not be reached immediately. These charges, which resulted in the custody of Jérôme Pernoo on April 11, are in addition to those of three other people, who accuse him of sexual assault on a minor for one of them, and of sexual harassment for two others. A hearing on all the alleged offenses must be held at the end of May before the Paris criminal court, the prosecution told AFP. Asked, Chirine Heydari, Jérôme Pernoo’s lawyer, did not wish to comment.
After more than fifteen years as a teacher at the CNSMDP, Jérôme Pernoo was dismissed without notice or compensation in May 2022 following an administrative investigation and disciplinary proceedings. A decision confirmed in November 2022 by the administrative court. In its judgment, the court also recalled that the professor, who had never been the subject of a report of this type before, had been accused of “inappropriate behavior” during his lessons.
