2023-06-21 19:32:09
Sexual violencedossierThe Court of Cassation has definitively dismissed the accusations of rape by actress Sand Van Roy once morest Luc Besson by rejecting the appeal lodged by the latter once morest the dismissal pronounced in favor of the filmmaker in 2021.
The Court of Cassation definitively dismissed on Wednesday June 21 the accusations of rape by actress Sand Van Roy once morest Luc Besson by rejecting the appeal lodged by the latter once morest the dismissal for the benefit of the filmmaker. In this emblematic case of #MeToo cinema version, the 35-year-old Belgian-Dutch actress had filed a complaint for rape on May 18, 2018, a few hours following an appointment in a Parisian palace whose protagonists gave two different versions. These charges were dismissed in December 2021, confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal in May 2022.
The highest judicial court finally considered that there was “no means of a nature to allow the admission of the appeal” and therefore declared its non-admissibility. “This decision confirms the dismissal in favor of Luc Besson and confirms all the decisions of the last five years which have found him not guilty”, reacted Me Thierry Marembert, the filmmaker’s lawyer. “It therefore puts a definitive end to this procedure initiated in 2018, during which Luc Besson was systematically cleared by all the magistrates who examined the case. As a lawyer, I welcome this exemplary procedure, which has allowed the manifestation of the truth which is that Luc Besson is innocent, “added the council, who had received support for the cassation procedure from Me Patrice Spinosi.
Sand Van Roy will seize the European Court
The plaintiff, Sand Van Roy, immediately reacted on Twitter: “the Court of Cassation has decided not to admit my appeal, which once once more results in the French courts refusing to consider evidence in the file. “. “I am continuing the proceedings in progress and I will seize the European Court of Human Rights,” she added.
The Court of Cassation decided not to admit my appeal, which once once more resulted in the French courts refusing to consider the evidence in the file. I continue the proceedings in progress and I will seize the European Court of Human Rights.
— Sand Van Roy (@SandVanRoy) June 21, 2023
During a hearing on May 24 on the appeal, the public rapporteur had proposed the non-admissibility of the appeal, considering that the defense called into question the “sovereign assessment” of the Court of Appeal, that its arguments were not not serious and that the highest French judicial court did not have the right to rule on the need for an additional investigation.
For Sand Van Roy, the influential filmmaker had imposed on him digital penetration, a source of fainting, despite his injunctions to stop. A version according to her accredited by findings, the day of the facts, by the medico-judicial emergencies. Two months later, the actress filed a complaint once morest the filmmaker for other rapes and sexual assaults committed, according to her, between 2016 and 2018, episodes of a “relationship of professional influence” under threats of “retaliation on his acting career”. Luc Besson regretted an extra-marital relationship in a context of “subordination”, while the actress had shot in some of her films. But he indicated twice that he had “no recollection” of some of the facts denounced and recounted a consented report imbued with “gentleness”.
Updated 3:38 p.m., context added.
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