justice – The actor and director was tried this Thursday at the Paris court for acts allegedly committed in particular in a nightclub in 2023
A one-year suspended prison sentence was requested against Nicolas Bedos on Thursday by the public prosecutor, with compulsory treatment for sexual assault and harassment of three women between 2018 and 2023.
“Can we be mistaken? No, there is no ambiguity,” declared the prosecutor in his indictment. In his defense, the actor and director repeated on numerous occasions that he had no memory of the facts with which he is accused and vigorously denied having engaged in inappropriate behavior.
“I don’t remember”
“I don’t remember. It’s a blackout…”. Throughout his trial before the Paris criminal court, Nicolas Bedos kept repeating that he had no memory of the attacks of which several women accused him, admitting to having been in an advanced state of intoxication at every time.
However, the director denied being a “sexual aggressor”, affirming that even under the influence of alcohol he could not have behaved inappropriately. “Nothing in me, in my life, in what I am, in what I think, corroborates such gestures,” he said.
A problem with alcohol
At these words, the young woman who filed a complaint against him burst into tears. She accuses(…) Read more on 20minutes
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