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Convicted of defamation against the actor, who contests the new rape accusations against him today, the actress says she is “scandalized and bruised” by the treatment of the case by the press and the courts, at the start of the MeToo movement .
She spoke for “protect all other women and girls”. On March 13, 2018, actress Solveig Halloin filed a complaint against actor Philippe Caubère. She accuses him of having raped her eight years earlier, in March 2010, in Béziers (Hérault), when she was 35 years old. A month later, on April 18, 2018, she spoke for the first time in the press, in a video published by the Huffington Post. Philippe Caubère admits to having had sexual relations with the complainant, but denies any rape.
A year after the explosion of the #MeToo movement, Solveig Halloin is one of the rare women in France to speak openly. Eleven months later, on February 17, 2019, the Créteil public prosecutor’s office closed the case without further action. Solveig Halloin tells today Liberation his work as a playwright “which has come to an end”, but also “the impoverishment and depression that resulted from it”. “The persecution continued,” she relates: in 2018, she was sued for defamation by Philippe Caubère. On her social networks, in April of the same year, the complainant accused the actor.
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