Caesar 2023: the Academy will withdraw anyone accused of "acts of violence"

The Académie des César has decided to withdraw, for its next ceremony, the people implicated "for acts of violence", in the wake of the Sofiane Bennacer affair, a young actor revealed in

indicted for rapes.

“Out of respect for the victims (even presumed in the event of indictment or non-final conviction), it was decided not to highlight people who would be implicated by justice for acts of violence”,

has the Academy said in a statement Monday.

Excluded from the “2023 revelations”

The actor Sofiane Bennacer, indicted in October, was placed under judicial control.

While he denies the facts of which he is accused, the director of the film, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, gave him his support, denouncing a "media lynching".

In November, the Académie des Césars announced the withdrawal of the actor's name from the list of male revelations 2023, considering that

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