The case has been in the news for months. Coline Berry had filed a complaint against her father Richard Berry and against her former mother-in-law Jeane Manson in January 2021 at the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office for sexual violence, in particular for having been “been forced to participate in sexual games“when she was a child. A first verdict has just fallen, and not in her favour. On Thursday April 14, 2022, the complainant was actually sentenced by the Aurillac court for defamation.
According to information from AFP, Coline Berry-Rojtman will have to pay a fine of €2,000 because of the article that appeared in the newspaper. The world on February 14, 2021, in which she spoke of the sexual violence she allegedly suffered when she was a minor, in 1984 and 1985. But also for her intervention in the program The Live BFM, broadcast on the channel of the same name, during which she claimed that Jeane Manson was part of the sect of the Children of God. Coline Berry will also have to pay €20,000 in damages to the former singer, as well as €5,000 in legal costs.
Parents, abusers and known, have a bright future ahead of them
Coline Berry had found many supporters across the country after making the case public, in particular that of her aunt Josiane Balasko and that of her cousin Marilou Berry. This conviction is a very serious offense for Karine Shebabo, his lawyer since the start of the proceedings. “My client is appalled, the parents, abusers and known, have a bright future ahead of themshe told AFP. It is a shocking decision, of great violence and a bad signal sent to children” The investigation into the facts set out by Coline Berry before the Paris prosecutor’s office is still ongoing. If Richard Berry and Jeane Manson have denied everything en bloc, for months, the actor’s daughter has made it known that she would call on this judgment.
The slap received by Coline Berry from her father’s wife
The case is in any case far from over, as the BFMTV journalist Vincent Vantighem rightly recalls, this Thursday, April 14. In a live tweet, he specifies that the qualification of “violence” could have been aggravated if they had been brought against a civil party or a witness, but Coline Berry was then warned during this trial. He reports that the Aurillac prosecution opened an investigation for ‘aggravated violence’ after the slap received by Coline Berry from Pascale Louange, the wife of Richard Berry, during the hearing. The judgment rendered this Thursday in Aurillac will therefore be the subject of an examination by a court of appeal.