Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde announced through his lawyers that he had filed a criminal complaint against "
X
", with the constitution of civil party.
According to the Belga news agency, the name and image of the 56-year-old actor have been used without his consent for several weeks.
As yet unidentified people send emails, or broadcast on various sites and social networks advertisements promoting a cryptocurrency site, based on comments by Benoît Poelvoorde made on the set of "Quotidien", the broadcast by Yann Barthès.
Words that have no connection with cryptocurrencies.
The actor said in a statement that these allegations are completely false, and that he has never given advice on investing his money in cryptocurrencies.
And also specifies that he did not agree to the use of his name and his image.
The last appearance of Benoît Poelvoorde on the TMC show dates back to May 23, 2019, to promote the film
Venice is not in Italy.
The subject of cryptocurrencies was indeed never discussed.
A precedent with Xavier Niel?
This strange affair is reminiscent of another, very similar, in which the founder of Free and shareholder in
Le Monde
, Xavier Niel was involved at the beginning of 2020. The
Weeklycal
site
was then promoting an
“investment by Xavier Niel “,
While usurping the identity of the evening daily and Xavier Niel. Revealed by this same newspaper, this story already used a screenshot from the show "Daily", and attached a fake quote from Xavier Niel, in which he praised the merits of a cryptocurrency program called
Bitcoin Evolution
.
The data collected by the lawyers of Benoît Poelvoorde were transmitted to the federal public service Economy, the competent service in the matter overseas.
