French police have taken administrators Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon into questioning on accusations of sexual assault made towards them by actress and activist Judith Godrèche.
Godrèche filed official complaints towards Jacquot and Doillon in February, accusing each males of sexual assault in alleged incidents many years in the past, when she was an adolescent. She accused Jacquot of raping her in 1986, when she was 14, and of subsequent offenses in a romantic relationship which lasted into the Nineteen Nineties. She has accused Doillon of sexually assaulting her in the course of the filming of his 1989 characteristic The 15-Yr-Previous Lady, through which she starred. Each males deny the allegations.
French media on Monday reported that each males had been taken into custody and have been being questioned by the Paris department of France’s Brigade for the Safety of Minors.
When Godrèche went public with the allegations, it helped reignite France’s #MeToo motion. The filmmaker, a former teen idol, has develop into the face of the motion, addressing the French Parliament and Senate and serving to push for a authorities fee to research intercourse crimes and sexism in French cinema.
In one other prominant #MeToo case, Dominique Boutonnat, the pinnacle of France’s highly effective nationwide movie board, the CNC, was discovered responsible on fees he sexually assaulted his 19-year-old godson.