In 2012, Louis was a 21-year-old student called Eddy Bellegueule and newly arrived in Paris when he told police a man he had met the previous evening had raped and tried to strangle him at knifepoint before stealing his iPad and phone on Christmas Day.
A medical examination carried out at the time found injuries that the doctor concluded suggested non-consensual and unprotected sex. It also noted bruising to Louisâs neck.
Bellegueule changed his name to Louis and wrote about the alleged attack in his bestselling book
Histoire de la violence (History of Violence) in 2016. This followed his 2014 autobiographical novel