The filmmaker Maïwenn explains in the JDD to have attacked the co-founder of Mediapart Edwy Plenel for a publication of his “hearing” in the case of Luc Besson, father of his daughter, accused of rape by an actress, which he disputes.
The Court of Cassation will deliver its decision on June 21 on these rape charges which were dismissed, confirmed on appeal, made by actress Sand Van Roy against the director who claims his innocence. “I do not blame Mediapart for the investigations they have carried out concerning Luc Besson. I blame them for what they did to me, ”launches Maïwenn (her name, Le Besco, is not used, she signs her films with her first name only) in the JDD.
The filmmaker and actress assures that she met a journalist from Mediapart at the end of 2018 about the investigation of this media on Luc Besson, her former husband and father of her daughter, whom she says has not been with “for 20 years” . The director then tells the journalist that she does not want to “speak”. But, at the beginning of 2021, Mediapart publishes “an article with bits of (his) hearing” made in June 2020 before the judicial police. “It’s a cataclysm. (…) I felt a moral rape”, underlines Maïwenn. “If nothing justifies attacking a journalist, nothing justifies violating a woman’s privacy,” she added.
She had already publicly admitted in May, in the Daily program (TMC), having attacked Edwy Plenel, then refusing to explain. Edwy Plenel had filed a complaint in March, which AFP was able to consult, against the actress and director for this attack.
“A woman, previously seated alone at another table (in a Parisian restaurant) appeared and in a very short time violently grabbed (Edwy Plenel) by the hair, throwing his head back and sketching a spit on his face”, can we read there. Maïwenn was then identified by the restaurant staff.
“An investigation is open. Edwy Plenel was heard two weeks ago. The other witnesses are being heard,” the journalist’s lawyer, Me Pierre-Emmanuel Blard, told AFP in mid-May.
