The French justice opened an investigation for alleged violations of minors against Gerald marie, former head of the Elite modeling agency in Europe, following accusations by former models and a BBC journalist, the Paris prosecutor’s office reported on Monday.

Research by “Rape and sexual assault”, Y “Rape and sexual assault of a minor” It was opened this Monday and will be in charge of the Brigade for the Protection of Minors, the same source told AFP.

The events date back to the 1980s and 1990s and could have prescribed.

Former BBC journalist Lisa Brinkworth claims that one night in October 1998, Gérald Marie, with whom she went to a disco, He “sat on her” and “began to put his genitals in her lower abdomen.”

The journalist had infiltrated the fashion industry as a model to investigate the topic of “inappropriate sexual behavior of some modeling agents” for a BBC documentary.

Three other former models accuse him of rape, like Carre Sutton, who says having suffered “innumerable” rapes by the former Elite chief in 1986, when he was 17 years old.

These facts could also have prescribed.

AFP tried unsuccessfully to contact Marie’s lawyer. The latter told the Sunday Times on Saturday that he “categorically denies” the allegations.