Accusations which cost him participation in the 2024 Olympic Games. Baptiste Moirot, who created a buzz in 2017, in a viral video where he lit a fire in his room, announced that he was
“withdrawing from the Olympic torch relay”
, after multiple accusations of sexual harassment against him.
The 29-year-old young man, whose mother assured in the video that he was
“not clean”
, was accused on social networks of having sent messages of a sexual nature to minors in the past, so that he was already an adult at the time. One of the alleged victims shared a screenshot of a conversation, in which Baptiste allegedly declared to a 15-year-old girl:
"You'll see when you have it in your mouth if it's small"
, while speaking of his sex. To another girl, he allegedly wrote:
“You deserve to be punished”
and
“you are a naughty little girl”.
A young woman also denounced non-consensual caresses on the hips on Instagram.
“Mistakes of the past”
As of Wednesday, Baptiste Moirot apologized in his Instagram story.
“I address these words to you with deep sincerity. I made mistakes and I am deeply sorry for them. Since becoming a father and starting my own family, I have really become aware of the importance of my actions and the example that I want to set. I am determined to learn from my past mistakes and continue working towards a better world. Thank you for your support and understanding
.
This Thursday, he said he was
“grateful to all those who supported me and I offer my sincere apologies to those I may have disappointed”,
explaining that he
“made the decision to withdraw from the torch relay , out of respect and to protect my family and myself
.
“T’es pas net Baptiste”
had been approached by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games after a petition having garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures, entitled
“So that Baptiste lights the Olympic flame of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris”
.
“We made two allusions (to “T’es pas net Baptiste” on our social networks, in November 2021 and in June 2023, to test the public’s enthusiasm,”
the committee explained to Le
Figaro
.
“Of these nods to “Each time there was a mobilization of an entire community for Baptiste to carry the flame”
And to continue:
“We met him and we were seduced by this young man, a pastry chef in life, a young father and for. who the Games have represented a great moment of sharing since he was little.