The Paris Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday morning on the rape charges against director Luc Besson.
The dismissal is confirmed in this emblematic file of the #MeToo era.
On April 19, the investigating chamber examined the appeal of the Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy against the abandonment of the proceedings from which the influential French filmmaker and producer benefited on December 9.
The public prosecutor had requested confirmation of the dismissal.
On May 18, 2018, the actress filed a complaint for rape, a few hours after an appointment in a Parisian palace, the protagonists of which gave two versions: according to Sand Van Roy, an imposed digital anal penetration then a fainting, despite his orders to stop.
For Luc Besson, a consented vaginal intercourse imbued with "sweetness".
Two months later, the actress filed a complaint for other rapes and sexual assaults committed between 2016 and 2018, episodes of a "relationship of professional influence" under threats of "retaliation on her career as an actress" with that who created the Cité du Cinéma in the north of Paris.
During the preliminary investigation, the filmmaker and the actress were confronted in December 2018, before the closing of the investigation, in February 2019, by the Paris prosecutor's office, which considered that it had not been able "to characterize the offense denounced ".
