The two men, who deny these accusations, arrived at around 9:30 a.m. at the Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police (DRPJ) in Paris accompanied by their lawyers.
Benoît Jacquot “will finally be able to express himself before the courts”, reacted his counsel Ms. Julia Minkowski, who denounced “questionable” police custody. “A free hearing should have been decided,” she added. For Me Marie Dosé, lawyer for Jacques Doillon, “none of the legal criteria can justify this measure” of police custody “36 years” after the facts denounced by Judith Godrèche.
Her client “should have been heard in a free hearing given the age of the facts, their statute of limitations acquired for more than two decades, and the inevitable dismissal without further action which will close this investigation”, she added in a press release. The two lawyers denounced the “attacks on the presumption of innocence” of their clients and the media coverage of these measures.
Confrontations
According to sources close to the case, these police custody periods could lead to confrontations between the directors and some of their accusers, including Judith Godrèche.
At the beginning of February, the 52-year-old actress sparked a new storm in the French #MeToo by successively accusing Benoît Jacquot of rape then Jacques Doillon of sexual assault, and filing a complaint.
The investigation by the Paris public prosecutor’s office concerns the offenses of rape of a minor under 15 years of age by a person in authority, rape, violence by a partner, and sexual assault of a minor over 15 years of age by a person in authority.
