the Court of Cassation rejects the appeal of actress Sand Van Roy

The judgment is now final. The Court of Cassation dismissed, on Wednesday June 21, the accusations of rape by actress Sand Van Roy against Luc Besson, rejecting the appeal lodged by the latter against the dismissal for the benefit of the filmmaker. Sand Van Roy had filed a complaint for rape on May 18, 2018, a few hours after an appointment in a Parisian palace. These charges were dismissed in December 2021, confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal in May 2022.

According to the testimony of the Belgian-Dutch actress, the influential filmmaker had imposed digital penetration on her, a source of fainting, despite her orders to stop. A version according to her accredited by findings, the day of the facts, by the medico-judicial emergencies. Two months later, the actress filed a complaint against the filmmaker for other rapes and sexual assaults committed, according to her, between 2016 and 2018, episodes of a “professional relationship” under threat of “retaliation for her acting career”.

The actress wants to seize the European Court of Human Rights

Luc Besson regretted an extra-marital relationship in a context of “subordination”, while the actress had shot in some of her films. But he indicated twice that he had no “not the memory” part of the facts denounced and recounted a consented report imbued with “candy”. The decision of the Court of Cassation “confirms the dismissal in favor of Luc Besson and ratifies all the decisions of the last five years which have found him not guilty”reacted the filmmaker’s lawyer to the announcement of the decision.

The plaintiff, Sand Van Roy, immediately reacted on Twitter: “The Court of Cassation has decided not to admit my appeal, which once again results in the French courts refusing to consider the evidence in the file.” The highest judicial court in fact considered that there was no “no means of such a nature as to allow the admission of the appeal”. The actress added that she would continue “ongoing proceedings” And “seize the European Court of Human Rights”.