LFilmmakers Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, accused by actresses, including Judith Godrèche, of sexual violence, are summoned this Monday, 1is July to the juvenile protection brigade for police custody, Agence France-Presse learned from sources close to the case.
The two men, who deny these accusations, arrived at around 9:30 a.m. at the regional headquarters of the judicial police (DRPJ) in Paris accompanied by their lawyers, an AFP journalist noted. Benoît Jacquot “will finally be able to speak before the courts,” reacted his counsel, Me Julia Minkowski, who denounced a “criticizable” police custody. “A free hearing should have been decided,” she added.
For mee Marie Dosé, Jacques Doillon’s lawyer, “none of the legal criteria could justify this measure” of police custody “36 years” after the facts reported by Judith Godrèche. Her client “should have been heard in the context of a free hearing in view of the age of the facts, their prescription acquired for more than two decades and the inevitable dismissal without follow-up 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.
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