The hearing began shortly after 9 a.m. on Friday.
In one of the rooms of the judicial court of Aurillac (Cantal), Coline Berry-Rojtman faces her father, the actor Richard Berry, whom she accuses of incest.
But it is she who is appearing today, targeted by a complaint for defamation filed by her mother-in-law, the singer Jeane Manson, whom Coline Berry-Rotjman associates with the alleged misdeeds of her father.
A preliminary investigation was opened on January 25, 2021 after Coline Berry-Rojtman's complaint for "acts of rape and sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor by ascendant and corruption of a minor" and the defamation charges in question today. concern two consecutive publications.
The first is an article from Le Monde published in February 2021 and the second, comments made during an interview on BFMTV in March 2021.
Richard Berry present at the hearing
For the first time, Richard Berry, who only spoke in an Instagram post dating from the filing of his daughter's complaint, should break the silence this Friday as a witness.
Jeane Manson, who supports her ex-spouse, spoke on BFMTV on Thursday, contesting the accusations of her ex-daughter-in-law.
"I never hurt him," she said.
(...) I want to tell him,
you know very well that I never did that to you, and you know very well that neither did your father
.
So we have to stop these lies.
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#Berry: Arrival of Richard Berry and Jeane Manson in court, to the applause of some supporters.
“We are with you!
We are with you!
“, chant-old.
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— Vincent Vantighem (@vvantighem) April 1, 2022
This case involving Parisian protagonists is being pleaded in Cantal for a surprising reason: "Jeane Manson's lawyer, Jacques Verdier, is domiciled in Aurillac, on the other side of the street, facing the court", explains on Twitter a BFMTV journalist present at the hearing.
What annoy the lawyer of the World who made the trip.
“There is no element in this case of attachment to Aurillac.
(…) You have to judge a case that has nothing to do with you, forgive me, ”he said at the start of the hearing.
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