While he was having dinner with a lawyer in the XIIe district, the co-founder of the online newspaper Mediapart says he was the object of violence on the part of the actress and director. She would have grabbed her hair violently, throwing her head back.
By Le Figaro with AFP
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The co-founder of the online newspaper Mediapart Edwy Plenel filed a complaint in March once morest the actress and director Maïwenn Le Besco whom he accuses of having attacked him in a restaurant in Paris, we learned on Friday from a source familiar with the matter. .
“The complaint for violence, which did not lead to incapacity for work, was transmitted to the officer of the public prosecutor’s office, the competent court to deal with the contraventions”said a second source familiar with the matter.
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In his complaint filed on March 7 and consulted by AFP, the president and publication director of Mediapart reports that on February 22, while he was having dinner with a lawyer in a restaurant in the twelfthe arrondissement, “a woman, previously seated, alone, at another table (…) arose and in a very short time grabbed the latter violently by the hair, throwing his head back and sketching a spit on his face”.
The woman, later identified by restaurant staff as Maïwenn Le Besco, “hastily left the restaurant without anyone being able to intervene given the speed of the action”.
No word was spoken during this attack, which left the journalist “very traumatized by hate” manifested. The act had no physical consequences, but “completely damaging on a moral and psychological level”is noted in the complaint.
“The act is unique but is no less violent, and somehow traumatic even in the absence of physical damage”reacted to AFP Me Pierre-Emmanuel Blard, the journalist’s lawyer. “Even for this kind of act, there can be no impunity”he added.
Contacted, Maïwenn Le Besco’s lawyer, Me Julia Minkowski, did not wish to react. According to the deductions of Edwy Plenel, who “personally never had trouble leaving” with the director, it is underlined in the complaint, the articles published by Mediapart on the suspicions of rape aimed at Luc Bessonhis former companion and father of one of his children, might have motivated his gesture.
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