The Paris instruction chamber had examined the actress’s appeal on April 19 on April 19, the prosecution from which the French filmmaker and producer benefited on December 9. The Court of Appeal followed Tuesday the requisitions of the public prosecutor.
Le Monde with AFP
The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed, Tuesday, May 24, the non-law order for producer Luc Besson, accused since May 2018 rape by actress Sand Van Roy, who immediately provided in cassation.
“The Court confirmed the innocence of my client. A dozen procedural initiatives of M Me van Roy have all concluded in the same way. Luc Besson regrets these four years lost” , declared his lawyer, M e Thierry Marembert, at the end of the deliberation.
“It was a sordid news item and it becomes a state affair, which we are going to treat as such. I have not seen justice, there, only a simulacrum of justice of small virtue. We promise To give this little justice a lesson of virtue, “replied M e antoine Gitton, lawyer for M me sand van roy Francis Szpiner.
The Paris Instruction Chamber had examined the actress’s appeal on April 19 on April 19, the prosecution from which the influential French filmmaker and producer benefited on December 9. The Court of Appeal followed Tuesday the requisitions of the public prosecutor, favorable to the confirmation of the dismissal. The actress also asked for the challenge of the president of the investigative chamber, on which she was not previously ruled.
On May 18, 2018, the actress filed a complaint for rape, a few hours after an appointment in a Parisian palace whose protagonists gave two versions: according to Sand Van Roy, an anal penetration imposed then a Survey, despite its injunctions to be stopped. For Luc Besson, a vaginal report consented with “sweetness”.
Two months later, the actress filed a complaint for other rapes and sexual assaults committed between 2016 and 2018, episodes of a “professional grip relationship” under threats of “retaliation on her acting career “With the one who created the City of Cinema north of Paris. The preliminary survey had been classified without follow -up in February 2019 by the Paris prosecutor’s office. An investigating judge was then seized of the file in October 2019.
Two years later, on December 9, 2021, another investigating magistrate made a dismissal order “in the absence of any material element supporting the declarations” of the 34-year-old complainant. A vision rejected by Sand Van Roy, who filed a complaint against the judge for “false” and challenges with his lawyers radically the content of the judicial information, according to her biased and incomplete.
Before the courts, at least three women mentioned facts ranging from “kisses in the neck” to the “attempted rape”, disputed by Mr. Besson. Other women had also testified to Mediapart of displaced gestures or sexual assault, often prescribed, on the part of the director.