The eldest daughter of comedian Richard Berry, Coline Berry-Rojtman, who accuses her father of incest in the 1980s, appears Friday in Aurillac following a defamation complaint by the actor's ex-wife, Jeane Manson.
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On February 14, 2021, in an article published by
Le Monde
, Coline Berry-Rojtman spoke of the sexual violence she allegedly suffered when she was a minor, in 1984 and 1985, at the home of her father who was then living with Jeane Manson, accused of having participated in these attacks.
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Born in 1976 from the union between Richard Berry and actress Catherine Hiegel, Coline Berry-Rojtman had filed a complaint for “rape and sexual assault on a minor” on January 25, 2021, triggering the opening of a preliminary investigation by the prosecution. from Paris.
Richard Berry, 71, denies outright, as does Jeane Manson who lives part of the year in Aurillac, where she sued her ex-stepdaughter for defamation.
The start of the hearing on Friday morning gave rise to long debates between lawyers, those of the defense pleading the impossibility of judging defamation, while the facts denounced by Coline Berry-Rojtman are the subject of investigation.
But the court did not follow them and launched the interrogation of the latter.
At the bar, she repeats what she said in
Le Monde
about the sexual games that Richard Berry would have led, including that of
the "orchestra"
, in which she had to play with her father's sex, compared to a
"flute"
or a
"trumpet"
, sometimes in the presence of Jeane Manson.
She also mentioned
“kisses on the mouth with the tongue”
.
“I only knew that
,” she said.
Coline Berry-Rojtman claims to have tried to talk about it with her father but to have
“never obtained anything from him”
because
“he is in denial”
.
Jeane Manson, after laughing ostensibly several times during the interrogation of her accuser, in turn answers the questions of the court.
For her, the article in
Le Monde
“is such a despicable lie, so ugly
”.
“She never saw me naked, she never touched my breasts.
(…) She lies and when we lie, we are always discovered”
, continues the former American singer.
In front of her, Coline Berry-Rojtman fumes and cannot help but react when her ex-mother-in-law assures that
"since she was ten years old, everyone has called her the mytho"
.
The testimony of Richard Berry, isolated with the other witnesses, was expected in the afternoon.
