Paris:
The Paris prosecutor’s workplace on Friday sought the dismissal of a rape case brought by an actress against acclaimed French film director Luc Besson, AFP discovered from a judicial supply.
Famed for films such as “Subway”, “The Big Blue” and “Nikita”, Besson’s fate will be decided by an investigating judge in charge of the case.
The 62-year-old has under no circumstances been charged but was provided the status of assisted witness beneath the French legal program, which falls quick of getting formally charged.
Besson’s lawyer Thierry Marembert told AFP that a ruling by the judge there was no case to answer would be “consistent with the reality of the case and the investigation”.
He stated his client had normally denied any wrongdoing and wanted to close this chapter of his life and “resume a normal life”.
One of accuser Sand Van Roy’s lawyers, Francis Szpiner, known as the move — 1st reported in Le Parisien newspaper — a “legal scandal”.
The Belgian-Dutch actress had filed a rape complaint on May 18, 2018 against the influential French producer and director, a day soon after a meeting with him in Paris.
Two months later, she made accusations about other rapes and sexual assaults she alleged had been committed for the duration of a two-year-lengthy “professional relationship” with the film-maker.
These complaints have been dismissed in February 2019 by the Paris prosecutor’s workplace.
Besson has repeatedly denied rape.
“I have never raped a woman in my life. I have never raised a hand to a woman. I have never threatened a woman,” he stated in 2019.
“I have never physically or morally coerced a woman into anything,” he added.
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