Actor Dimitri Boetto was arrested on January 1 on a train bound for the Paris region, where he lives. He is suspected of having fatally beaten his brother-in-law, in Apt in Vaucluse. A judicial investigation was opened against the actor on Friday for acts of “violence leading to death without the intention of causing it”, Le Parisien learned this Friday from a judicial source confirming the information from Progrès and Dauphiné Libéré.
According to France Bleu and Vaucluse Matin, a violent fight broke out on Wednesday at lunchtime in front of a café in downtown Apt, where the actor is from. “There was violence committed and a person was found on the public highway,” said the Avignon prosecutor’s office, specifying that the victim “died shortly afterward.” The investigation will try to determine whether the tragedy was caused by “a family dispute” or “something else”.
Born in 1973, Dimitri Boetto played in films such as “The Last Queen” (2023), “Aside His Pumps” (2023) and “Burn-Out” (2018). He also appeared in the M6 series “Scène deménage” (unbroadcast episode) and made appearances in the Netflix series “So far so good” (2023).
On his Instagram account, he indicates that he is performing in “The Child in You” at the Le Paris de l'Humour theater, the next performance of which is scheduled for January 11. He plays a homeless man who repairs a broken teddy bear, before a discussion begins between them “about life and injustices”, specifies Billet Réduc.
In parallel with his acting career, Dimitri Boetto is passionate about combat sports, and boxing in particular. In an interview dating back to May 2023, he says he was in prison “for several years for acts of criminal conspiracy, possession of weapons”, for having “expressed himself with the codes of a young male full of testosterone “.
In December 2023, the man who is also a screenwriter and author documented his meeting with the Ministry of National Education for a funding request for a film that he had written in collaboration with the association From the Shadow to the light “against domestic violence and school bullying”. “For me it was pensions, prisons, art, cinema… I put all that down on paper,” he said in a comment on his publication.
