The filmmaker was taken into custody on Wednesday. At the end of this, he was summoned “to be tried at the beginning of the year 2024”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
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Director Nicolas Bedos, targeted by a complaint for sexual assault, was placed in police custody at the Paris-Centre police station on Wednesday June 21, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday, confirming information from the Actu17.fr site. The complaint was filed on June 12 “for sexual touching” for facts which allegedly took place on June 2 in a nightclub, said the prosecution.
“After extension of police custody for the necessities of the investigation”the director was given a summons “to be judged at the beginning of the year 2024” For “sexual assault while clearly drunk”. This offense carries a five-year prison sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros. The Garde at sight of Nicolas Bedos was lifted Thursday evening, learned franceinfo from the filmmaker’s lawyer.
“You’re not going to hit me there!”
According to the first elements to which franceinfo had access, a young woman aged 25 said in her complaint that she had gone with her older brother and his partner as well as two friends to the Sauvages nightclub, located in the 1st arrondissement. of the capital. As she walked to the dance floor, the Complainant reported seeing a man walk up to her. He would then have stretched out his right hand at the level of his private parts, over his pants.
The complainant claims to have pushed him away and remembers that he said to her: “You’re not going to hit me there!” The young woman then explains that she recognized Nicolas Bedos and adds that she said to him: “Go get treated!” Also according to her story, a security guard approached her and asked what was going on. Pointing to the man, she relates having told him “Fire him!”which the security guard did.
In front of the investigators, the director assured not to want “question the word of the complainant who describes an inappropriate gesture of a few seconds over her jeans”explained his lawyer to franceinfo. “Such a gesture, of which [Nicolas Bedos] does not remember, which would have happened on the dance floor of a nightclub, could only have been accidental under the influence of intoxication”added Julia Minkowski.