When and how to take criminal action against a Clairvoyant

The methods used by the clairvoyant or medium can sometimes constitute an offense, generally a scam.

It should be remembered that fraud is defined by article L313-1 of the Penal Code as the act, either by the use of a false name, or by the abuse of a true capacity, or by the use of fraudulent maneuvers, of deceiving a natural person and convincing them to hand over funds, values ​​or any property or to provide a service or to consent to an act resulting in an obligation or discharge. The fraud is punishable by 5 years of imprisonment and 375,000 euros.

For there to be fraud, it is not enough that the psychic has lied to you about his alleged abilities, he must also have used real maneuvers intended to deceive you and convince you to give him money (staged, intervention of third party accomplices, etc.)

If you are in this hypothesis, you must then file a complaint, either by going to the police station or the gendarmerie, or by writing to the Public Prosecutor.

If you have no news of your complaint after three months or if you are informed that it has been closed without action, you must then file a complaint with the establishment of a civil party with the Dean of Investigating Judges, through a lawyer.

If following a police or gendarmerie investigation, or at the end of the investigation, the offense appears to have indeed been committed, the clairvoyant will be referred to the Criminal Court to be judged. It is then that you can request an order to pay you damages to compensate for the harm suffered.