The filmmaker Maïwenn explains in the JDD to have assaulted the co-founder of Mediapart Edwy Plenel for a publication of his "hearing" in the case Luc Besson, father of his daughter, accused of rape by an actress, which he disputes.
The Court of Cassation will render on June 21 its decision on these accusations of rape which were the subject of a dismissal, confirmed on appeal, formulated by the actress Sand Van Roy against the director who claims his innocence. "I do not blame Mediapart for the investigations they conducted concerning Luc Besson. I blame them for what they did to me, "says Maïwenn (her name, Le Besco, is not used, she signs her films with her first name only) in the JDD.
The filmmaker and actress assures that she met a journalist from Mediapart at the end of 2018 about the investigation of this media on Luc Besson, her former husband and father of her daughter, whom she says she has not frequented "for 20 years". The director then tells the journalist that she does not want to "speak". But, in early 2021, Mediapart published "an article with bits of (his) hearing" made in June 2020 before the judicial police. "It's a cataclysm. (...) I felt a moral rape," says Maïwenn. "If there is no justification for attacking a journalist, there is no justification for violating a woman's privacy," she added.
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She had already publicly admitted in May, in the program Quotidien (TMC), to have assaulted Edwy Plenel, refusing then to explain. Edwy Plenel had filed a complaint in March, which AFP was able to consult, against the actress and director for this attack.
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A woman, previously seated, alone, at another table (of a Parisian restaurant) appeared and in a very short space of time grabbed (Edwy Plenel) by the hair with violence, throwing his head back and spitting on his face. Maïwenn was later identified by restaurant staff.
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An investigation is opened. Edwy Plenel was heard two weeks ago. The other witnesses are being heard," Pierre-Emmanuel Blard, the journalist's lawyer, told AFP in mid-May.