This is a major step in an emblematic case of denunciation of sexual violence which has shaken French cinema for several months. According to Agence France-Presse, whose information was confirmed in MondeBenoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon were summoned, Monday 1is July, to the Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM) of the Paris judicial police for placement in police custody. The two filmmakers are accused of rape and violence by several women, including the actress Judith Godrèche, whom they should be confronted by investigators in the coming hours.
” I’m crying. My eyes are no longer eyes. Of all that. (…) I don’t know if I’ll have the strength but I will have it”the actress reacted in a message on her Instagram account. Her lawyer, Laure Heinich, did not wish to comment: “Police custody is subject to the secrecy of the investigation which we wish to preserve during its duration”she explained.
Before the BPM, Benoît Jacquot, 77 years old, will have to respond to the complaint filed on February 6 by Judith Godrèche for “violent rape of a minor under the age of 15” committed by a person in authority. As she told at length to Mondethe actress met the director on the set of the film Beggars in 1986, when she was 14 years old. According to her account, an intimate relationship, which lasted until 1992 and was characterized by sexual, physical and psychological violence, developed between them following this filming.
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These facts, probably covered by the statute of limitations, are contested by Benoît Jacquot, who claims not to have had sexual intercourse with Judith Godrèche before she was 15 years old. The director of Farewell to the Queen further claims that it was a story of shared love. Monde in early February, he said he felt “responsible for having been under the spell of a young girl at a non-canonical age”while admitting that“at 15, you can’t really consent”.
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Following Judith Godrèche’s speech, other women have denounced Benoît Jacquot’s behavior towards them. This is particularly the case of actress Isild Le Besco, who met the filmmaker when she was 16 years old for the filming of Sade, in 1999. She decided in May to file a complaint for rape of a minor over 15 years old and rapes, which were allegedly committed between 1998 and 2007. “With this complaint, it is not so much that I attack Benoît Jacquot, but that I support the women who do it and thus expose themselves publicly”the actress and author then justified that The world met for the recent publication of her story Say true. Son avocat, Me Benjamin Chouai did not wish to respond to the announced placement in police custody of Benoît Jacquot.
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