L'actrice Judith Godrèche a porté plainte mardi à Paris pour des viols sur mineure contre le réalisateur Benoît Jacquot, avec qui elle a eu une relation lorsqu'elle était adolescente, a déclaré mercredi à l'AFP son avocate Me Laure Heinich, confirmant une information du Monde.
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00:00 Actress Judith Godrej brought a complaint on Tuesday in Paris for rape on minors against director Benoit Jacot,
00:05 with whom she had a relationship when she was a teenager,
00:08 declared Wednesday to the AFP her lawyer, Maître Loréniche, confirming information from Le Monde.
00:13 Tuesday, the actress filed a complaint for rape on minors of 15 years old per person
00:18 having authority to the Brigade of Protection of Minors for these facts dating from the second half of the 1980s
00:24 and which are possibly prescribed.
00:26 According to Le Monde, Mr. Jacot, 77, firmly denied the allegations and accusations of Judith Godrej.
00:33 Requested early January on these accusations by the AFP, the director did not wish to comment.
00:39 The actress had very recently mentioned this relationship with the 25-year-old filmmaker
00:44 her elder in the series The Icon of French Cinema on Arte.
00:47 The relationship would have started in the spring of 1986, when she was just 14 years old,
00:52 and would have ended in the early 1990s.
00:56 Mrs. Godrej had never questioned the director before the court.
01:01 "The little girl in me can no longer keep this name," she said early January in a story posted on Instagram,
01:07 deleted before being put online, in which she spoke of the two perverts' holdings.
01:12 "His name is Benoit Jacot. He is still manipulating those who could associate their name with mine.
01:18 Witness. He threatens to bring me to justice for defamation," said the 51-year-old actress,
01:24 assuming that the filmmaker is underestimated for his perversion.
01:27 "Who has esteem for the practices of Béji? Known to all and all for 35 years.
01:33 Who is valid and valid? The agent who represents him?
01:37 Who introduced me at 14? His producer? Same thing.
01:43 Where does this feeling of impunity come from? Everyone knew.
01:48 And the same are at work," she continued, saying she feared that her back would be turned after her words.
01:54 Her speech had been motivated by the viewing of an old documentary
01:58 where Benoit Jacot recognized the illegal nature of his past relationship with the teenager,
02:02 where it was a transgression.
02:04 "Wouldn't it be this at the sight of the law, we don't have the right in principle, I think.
02:09 A girl like her who was indeed 15, and I 40, I didn't have the right,
02:14 could we hear it said in this documentary dated 2011? "
02:17 In front of the investigators, Judith Godrej also denounced violence during this relationship,
02:23 according to Maître Niche.
02:24 Judith Godrej was revealed in "Les Mandiens" by Jacot (1988) and "La Désenchantée" (1990).
02:32 The filmmaker built his work around actresses, stars like Isabelle Huppert
02:37 or debutantes like Iside Lebesqueau, sister of Maïwenn,
02:40 revealed at the age of 18 in "Le Sade", the first of their six films together.
02:44 "I can't film an actress if I'm in love with her,"
02:47 assumed in 2009 the interested in the newspaper "Le Figaro".