2023-07-18 20:30:53
A second woman, under the first name of Marion, described to online media a sexual assault committed by the filmmaker in August 2017 in a vacation home. She had known Nicolas Bedos since adolescence and his age at the time of the facts denounced was not specified.
A first police custody that freed speech
It was the revelation of the actor’s police custody and the announcement of his trial that decided the first two women, who know each other, to testify with the courts, specifies Mediapart. The director was taken into custody on June 21 following a woman complained of touching his private parts over his pants in a Parisian club on the night of June 1-2.
At the end of his hearing, he was summoned to the Paris Criminal Court in February 2024 for sexual assault in a state of manifest intoxication, an offense for which he faces five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros ” He does not want to question the word of the complainant who describes an inappropriate gesture of a few seconds over her jeans, “said his lawyer, Me Julia Minkowski, a few weeks ago. “But such a gesture, which he does not remember, which would have occurred on the dance floor of a nightclub, might only have been accidental under the effect of intoxication”, had -she adds.
According to Mediapart, the woman who calls herself Chloé clarified “having gone to testify (to the courts) to say that it is certainly not an accident”. Marion, she denounces the pretext of alcohol put forward by the actor who, according to her, is “more of a modus operandi than an excuse”.
The prescription issue
The preliminary investigation will have to determine in particular if the facts denounced are not prescribed and if there are no other victims. Prior to 2017, the statute of limitations for sexual assault was three years and ten years for rape. The law now provides for a limitation period of six years and twenty years.
Nicolas Bedos has several hats in the world of cinema: playwright, columnist, screenwriter and even actor. Son of the humorist Guy Bedos, he made a name for himself by distinguishing himself in many fields, since his theater debut in 2004, at barely 25 years old, with several plays including stage exit.
Artist and humorist, claiming his politically incorrect, sometimes divisive positions, Nicolas Bedos is the author of four films, three of which were presented at the Cannes Film Festival. The good times (2019), his most noticed feature film, won eleven César nominations, including those for best film and best director, and attracted 1.2 million spectators in theaters.
He turned the gratin of French cinema, from Jean Dujardin (OSS117: Red alert in black Africa) to Isabelle Adjani (Masquerade), via Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet and Fanny Ardant.
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