The actor is the revelation of the latest film by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, “Les Amandiers”, released in November.
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The actor is the revelation of the last film by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the almond trees, released in November. Sofiane Bennacer, 25, was indicted in October in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) for the alleged rapes of two former companions and violence on a third, we learned, Tuesday, November 22, from the prosecutor From the Roux-Morizot Edwige Republic. The actor “contests everything”, said the magistrate, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien .
As part of a fourth complaint filed by another ex-partner who denounced facts of rape, he was placed under the more favorable status of assisted witness, said the Mulhouse prosecutor, where the case is educated. The actor was put under judicial supervision, continued M me red-moorizot, specifying that his parquet had initially required his placement in pre-trial detention.
His judicial control prohibits him from going to the Paris region, in Strasbourg and Mulhouse. According to the magistrate, it is also forbidden to meet the complainants and the witnesses, among which M me bruni tedeschi, heard as a witness in the file. According to Le Parisien, she would be the actor’s partner.
“A bond under control”
The alleged facts would have occurred “between 2018 and 2019” in Mulhouse, Strasbourg and Paris, and the alleged victims evolve “in the world of theater”, detailed M me roux-Morizot. According to Le Parisien, he would have known one of his accusers at the La Filature theater school in Mulhouse, where “the couple would have formed”. The alleged victims “describe a liaison under control, during which not granted relations would have taken place,” also affirms the daily.
The National Theater of Strasbourg (TNS), where Sofiane Bennacer had been admitted to school in 2019, had seized the Ministry of Culture of facts “of sexist, sexual and harassment of which she had been informed”, According to the newspaper. The ministry had then made a report to justice, said M me roux-Morizot, without specifying the date.
Benjamin Morel, administrator of the TNS, told the agency France-Presse Wednesday that “it was Sofiane Bennacer who made the decision to resign on February 19, 2021, after the allegations were formulated on meeting” .
Sofiane Bennacer is one of the sixteen comedians (and sixteen actresses) selected in mid-November as “emerging talents” by the Revelations Committee of the Césars Academy. This list is transmitted “as an information” to the members of the Academy as part of their vote for the César 2023 of the best female hope and the best male hope.
“I’m not going to leave for false testimonies. The person who files complaints me harassed me two years after our relationship for us to get back together,” reacted Sofiane Bennacer on Tuesday in a long message posted on his Account Instagram . “I may be boycotted by the cinema. Anyway, I was humiliated in the depths of my soul. That is why I decide to continue to compete for the Caesars.”