It was sentenced to 2,000 euros for defamation and to pay 20,000 euros of damages to the former singer as well as 5,000 euros for legal costs.
Le Monde and AFP
The eldest daughter of Richard Berry, Coline Berry Roojtman, who accuses his father of sexual violence, was sentenced, Thursday, April 14, by the court of Aurillac for defamation towards his former mother-in-law, the singer Jeane Manson.
A lawyer of Coline Berry Roojtman, Karine Shebabo, immediately announced to the France-Presse agency that she appealed this decision:
“My client is dismayed, parents, aggressors and known, have good days in front of them.”
In February 2021, in an article published by Le Monde, Coline Berry-Rojtman evoked sexual violence that it would have suffered while it was a minor, in 1984 and 1985, at the home of his father who lived with Jeane Manson, accused of having participated in these aggression.
20 000 euros of damages
The Aurillac court sentenced him to € 2,000 for defamation as a result of this article and for the television broadcast “Live BFM”, in which she had said that Jeane Manon was part of The sect of the children of God. Coline Berry-Rojtman was also sentenced to pay 20,000 euros of damages to the former singer, as well as 5,000 euros for legal costs.
Also involved, the journalists of the world and the daily have not been convicted. At the hearing, April 1, the Prosecutor had not requested a conviction against Le Monde, believing that the newspaper had acted in good faith and gave himself to the court for the rest.
“It is a consternative decision, of great violence and a bad signal sent to the children,” said Thursday M me Shebabo, deploring that this judgment intervene while the investigation of The facts is still in progress.
Born in 1976 from the Union between Richard Berry and Actress Catherine Hiegel, Coline Berry-Rojtman filed a complaint for “rape and sexual assault”, triggering the opening of a preliminary inquiry by the prosecutor’s office. Paris.
Richard Berry, 71, denies in block, just like the former singer Jeane Manson, who lives part of the year in Aurillac, where she had decided to pursue her ex-beautiful daughter in defamation.