His rape complaint against Luc Besson is still under investigation, and the prosecution requested a dismissal in October 2021. But the Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roy is not going “let go“, she says in” Further investigation “. Thursday, November 11, 2021, after a document devoted to the accusations of rape against the director Roman Polanski, it is therefore from another giant of French cinema that he is question in this exceptional interview.
Luc Besson, who formally denies any aggression, has since been accused of inappropriate gestures, even sexual assault by eight other actresses (their testimony was published by Mediapart). After reviewing the circumstances of the facts that she denounces since May 2018, the actress, questioned by Tristan Waleckx, expresses her complaints against the French justice.
“This complaint completely shattered my life”
“This complaint completely broke my life“, says the actress. Sand Van Roy”regrets having lodged a complaint in France, because this country does not protect the victims of famous people“. During the investigation, the director was never taken into police custody, contrary to what had been requested at the start of the investigations, and his DNA will not have been taken for several years. And this “in a rape case where the materiality of the facts is contested”, she wonders. She herself had to undergo several psychiatric examinations? “but not Luc Besson”, she denounces. Certain documents attesting to its “depression” and his “post-traumatic stress”, established by doctors, were not entered in the file by the investigating judge, she also regrets.
“Blacklisted” because of the “Besson affair”
As for her career as an actress, she would have been stopped short by this complaint. “In France, I had only one casting [en trois ans]. I had just turned Taxi, so I did a lot of castings, I had a good agent, everything was good… And since then, it has stopped.“A producer contacted by” Complément d’études “, who was to give him a role at the time, confirms that the project would have been interrupted because of the” Besson affair. ”
“When his name came out, [elle a été] blacklisted, meaning people didn’t want to hire her anymore. “
A producer questioned by “Further investigation”
If it had to be done again, would she file a complaint again? “Not in France. Not in a country that abused me, that over-traumatized me“, responds the actress, categorically, announcing her intention to”confront people who have done legal stupid things“.
Excerpt from an interview broadcast in “Complément d’études” on November 11, 2021.
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