Win Butler, leader of the Arcade Fire gang, accused of sexual abuse

The musician Win Butlerleader and founder of the acclaimed Canadian band Arcade Firewas accused by four people of sexual harassmentaccording to the publication of a specialized magazine.

Three of the people who accuse Butler are women who admired the band and claim that sexual intercourse was inappropriate due to age and the power dynamics at play, Pitchfork magazine says. They they were between 18 and 23 when they began their relationship with Butlerwhich took place in different periods between 2016 and 2020, when the artist was between 36 and 39 years old.

The fourth person who accused Butler identifies as “fluid genre” and claims he was abused twice in 2015 when he was 21 and the singer 34. Today the singer is 42 years old.

Butler, married since 2003 to another of the group’s founders, Régine Chassagne, denied the allegations.

In statements to the same publication in which the complaints appeared, Butler assured that the relations he had with these four people they were “consensual” and explained that his marriage is “less conventional than others”, so his wife knows about his relationships outside of marriage.

“I have never touched a woman against her will and no suggestions I have it’s just false“, he has declared.

Speaking with Pitchfork, Chassagne defended her husband, saying she was “sure” that he had never abused any woman.

Meanwhile, the four people who accuse Butler of abuse ensure that the singer contacted them through social media before meeting them in person and that, later, he asked for sex and photos of their naked bodies.

One of the women ensures that the singer I’m sending you photos of your genitals Against his will.

The person who identifies as someone of the “fluid gender” told Pitchfork that the singer one day broke into her apartment and touched her without her consent, holding her against the wall and groping her body, which in turn. that moment the victim felt “no good.”

The band Arcade Fire, founded in 2001, has become one of the most famous indie rock bands of the last two decades and has amassed numerous awards, such as a Grammy for best album of the year for its album “The suburbs” (2010) . .

On their website, it appears that they still plan to start a Europe tour this Tuesday to promote their sixth studio album, “WE”, and with concerts in Ireland, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Belgium, including other countries.

With information from EFE.