It is a denial that does not pass.
Following the formal challenges hammered on Tuesday by actor and director Richard Berry, his daughter Coline Berry wanted to respond yesterday on Instagram, by expressing his determination and by providing some details on the facts.
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The actress, now 45, responded to her father's indignant reactions by saying his complaint was "
a serious, thoughtful and balanced act
".
In a message posted on the social network, Coline Berry specifies to have been, as a child, "
kissed by her father on the mouth with the tongue
" and to have "
had to participate in his sexual games in a context of notorious domestic violence
".
"
What has evolved over time is his attitude: from the first violence, he then moved on to sweaty solicitation so that I pass in the towel or not pass him off as a pedophile,
" said Coline Berry on her father Richard Berry's relationship with her.
“
My father's lies will not stand up to scrutiny of all the evidence gathered so far.
This blatant denial, this omnipotence, this violence emanating from him and his entourage are heavy to bear.
As much as this secret that has lived in me for decades.
All this is part of the same movement of annihilation of little Coline
”wrote the actress in her message.
"
My narrative of the facts has never varied, many testimonies can be provided
", she adds, awaiting justice "
that the truth be made on what my father made undergo to the child that I" was, and on the violence he continues to try to exercise on me
”.
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"
Supported
" by her mother, "
relatives, as well as members of (her) family
", Coline Berry spoke out following the filing of a complaint on January 25 against her father Richard Berry.
A preliminary investigation, entrusted to the brigade for the protection of minors, was opened at the Paris prosecutor's office for "
acts of rape and sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor by ascendant and minor corruption
".
According to a source familiar with the matter, the complainant, born in 1976 from the union between Richard Berry and actress Catherine Hiegel, was not heard.
The companion of Richard Berry at the time of the alleged facts, the American singer Jeane Manson, refuted accusations dating back to 1984-1985, "
implausible
" according to her.
And deplored being "
taken to task in a family settlement of accounts
".
"
Never during a short life together and on the occasion of Richard Berry's restricted visitation rights on his daughter, have I noticed any inappropriate behavior by him on Coline
", she added in a
press
release. to AFP.
Read also: Camille Kouchner, the one who dared to name the unnamable
Incest charges on the rise
A familiar figure to spectators, both for his roles in popular comedies such as
Pédale Douce
(1996) and more serious films (
L'Origine de la violence
, 2016), Richard Berry is also a regular on the boards, headliner before the theaters closed because of the pandemic of the hit play
Plaidoiries
, where he put himself in the dress of five tenors of the bar.
This case broke out while the subject of incest has been in the public for a month, after the publication of
La Familia Grande
, a story by Camille Kouchner where she accuses her stepfather, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, of having sexually assaulted his twin brother in the 1980s.
