Popular star and actor for four decades, Patrick Bruel, 67, who cultivated an image of an unrepentant seducer carried by the early "Bruelmania", is today indicted after complaints from numerous women for rape and sexual violence. The singer, who had been in police custody since Monday, emerged free on Wednesday evening under judicial supervision from the Nanterre court, thus escaping the pre-trial detention that the prosecution had requested. Story by Alice Brogat.