A judicial investigation for rape was opened Thursday against the former director of the National Dramatic Center La Manufacture in Nancy Michel Didym, who had been the subject of a preliminary investigation since the end of September, we learned on Friday with the parquet floor of Nancy.
This opening of judicial information is not accompanied for the time being by an indictment of Michel Didym, who remains free, said the prosecution, confirming information from
Est Républicain
and France 3 Grand Est.
At the end of September, a preliminary investigation for sexual violence had been opened targeting the director.
He had been released at the end of his police custody.
In an investigation published in early October by
Liberation
, several women claimed to have suffered harassment and sexual violence from the 63-year-old man, who disputes the facts.
Alice's testimony, accusing the Nancy director of having raped her in 2012 when she was a 20-year-old student actress, had paved the way for several other testimonies of sexual violence suffered in the theater world and the movement # MeTooThéâtre on social networks.
In November, Michel Didym had left for the 2022 edition the direction of the contemporary theater festival La Mousson d'été, of which he was the founder.
