Become famous on Youtube, Norman Thavaud, alias Norman makes videos, was placed in police custody this Monday, December 5, 2022, as part of an investigation for corruption of minors and rape.
Norman Thavaud, better known as “Norman makes videos” on YouTube, was taken into custody on Monday, December 5, 2022 reports Releaseinformation confirmed by BFM TV. According Freed, this police custody is part of a preliminary investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for acts of corruption of a minor and rape. Several teenage girls and young women are said to have been victims of the 35-year-old YouTuber. “They accuse him of facts of a different nature”, specifies the daily, while the thirty-something is presumed innocent in this file. The case concerns in particular a young fan from Quebec who, then aged 16 in 2020, accuses Norman Thavaud of having managed to extract sexual photos and videos from her during a “little unhealthy game of emotional attachment. .” In addition, five other people were questioned in this context, including two minors at the time of the events. The young Quebecer should be confronted with the youtubeur Tuesday advance Freed.
Nudes requested according to a complainant
The young woman’s name is Maggie Desmarais. In April 2021, she told her story to the Quebec site Urbania. The facts would have taken place in 2017 or 2018, for nine months: only Norman’s age at that time (30 years old) was indicated, making it possible to determine the chronology of the facts. This Quebecer had explained that she had exchanged simple messages with the youtubeur before the “virtual relationship”, as she had specified, transformed “quickly into flirtation”. “Very shortly after our first exchanges, he started to compliment me. Little by little, the photos we sent each other were more and more daring. It was from there that it became problematic and that he was more and more insistent and demanding,” she explained, referring to manipulation: “he used the right words at the right times; as soon as I walked away, he caught up with me at the last moment. I was ready to cut off all communication with him, he was coming back to the charge.
In her remarks, Maggie Desmarais argues that Norman “just wanted us to send nudes (photo partially or completely naked, editor’s note) on Snapchat.” When in 2018, the #BalanceTonYoutubeur wave swept through social networks, the young girl explained that she had received a message from the 30-year-old: “don’t talk too much about our story, it might seem ambiguous, with everything that’s going on.” At that time, Squeerie, the first French youtubeur, had then published on Twitter: “The youtubers (including those who shout from the rooftops that they are feminists) who take advantage of the psychological vulnerability of young subscribers to obtain reports we see you. The truth always ends up coming out.”
Rapes not characterized at this stage
If in the story of Maggie Desmarais, there was never any question of any rape, Release indicates that the five other potential victims questioned by justice in the context of this case could have been victims of rape. However, nothing in the file at this stage confirms that such actions took place.