On the eve of the release of his new film DogmanLuc Besson was invited FranceInter this Monday 25 September. In June, the justice system ruled in favor of the director in the investigation he had been subject to since 2018, after being accused of rape by the Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roy.
“What interests me is making films »
“Justice wasn’t on my side, it just did its job »the director insisted. “ We can be afraid of it sometimes because it is true that it is certainly not perfect, but it is irreplaceable so we must leave it alone. » At the microphone of FranceInterLuc Besson appeared confident in the face of Sonia Devillers’ questions. When the journalist asked him if this story “it prevented him from sleeping”, the director proclaimed his innocence, citing the women of his family as an argument of authority:
“No because I’m not guilty, I didn’t do what I’m accused of. (…) This is my education, I was raised by my mother and grandmother. I couldn’t keep up a lie like that for years. If I had done something stupid, something stupid, I would raise my hand and say yes, I did something stupid and I would pay the consequences.. »
After using these euphemisms, describing rape as “stupidity” and of “bullshits”Luc Besson continues:
“I haven’t read the Mediapart articles, my lawyer is taking care of it, what interests me is making films. I’m 64 years old, I have two or three left, If I could do them easily, I would be fine. »
Complaints are “prayers to the devil »
While Sand Van Roy announced that he had brought the case to Belgian justice in April, the director announced that he would not have filed a defamatory complaint against the complainant or against Mediapartwhose articles he claimed not to have read.
By way of explanation, the director quoted a line of dialogue from his own film, Dogman. In this, he suggested that there would be a diabolical dimension in the simple act of filing a complaint, reinforcing the stereotype of the vengeful woman :
“Look, there’s a line in Dogman that says this complaints are prayers to the devil. »
In his complaint, filed a few hours after a meeting with the director in a Parisian hotel, Sand Van Roy stated that the influential director and producer would have imposed on him digital anal penetration. A version of events supported by a anal injury documented by forensic services on the day of the accident. However, this was not enough to convince the courts, which upheld it “lack of consensus” of the complainant has not been proven. The day after the announcement of the rejection of the appeal in France, actress Sand Van Roy said in a press release on Twitter:
“Don’t press charges. Especially not on the day of the accident. Especially not against Luc Besson. That’s all. Done. »
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Source: Madmoizelle
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