Invited this Saturday on the BFMTV set, Coline Berry, daughter of actor and director Richard Berry, affirmed that she maintains and accepts “all her accusations” of incest against her father. Three days after the annulment by the Court of Cassation of her conviction for defamation, Coline Berry, accompanied by her lawyer, said she was “relieved” even if “not completely cleared” because the defamation complaint was postponed on appeal.
“It was so amazing that we could file a complaint when I simply denounced facts of which I was a victim,” she also denounced, claiming to have undergone the hearing of her defamation trial “in a manner astonishing.” “I suffered everything, heard everything, I was even slapped by my mother-in-law.”
In February 2021, Coline Berry spoke in an article published in the newspaper Le Monde of the sexual violence she allegedly suffered between the ages of 8 and 10, at the home of her father who then lived with Jeane Manson, accused of having participated with him in these attacks. The 73-year-old former singer had decided to sue her ex-daughter-in-law for defamation before the Aurillac court, in Cantal, where she lives part of the year. On April 14, 2022, the Aurillac court sentenced Coline Berry-Rojtman, 47, to a fine of 2,000 euros for defamation, accompanied by 20,000 euros in damages as well as 5,000 euros in legal costs.
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“If I come this evening to testify, although it is not an exercise that I appreciate, it is to point out the fact that when we file a complaint today, we can be sued for defamation while the investigations are in progress and no facts can be verified,” Coline Berry also took offense, denouncing a “problem in the judicial chronology.”
The investigation targeting the actor accused of incest by his daughter was dismissed on August 31, 2022 due to statute of limitations. “I live with the facts, despite everything, like all victims, and I build myself with them as best I can, in pain, not always passively and simply,” Coline Berry also affirmed, when questioned about the impossibility of a criminal conviction. from his father.
Claiming to have “reached out to him dozens of times”, Richard Berry’s daughter also explained again that she had filed a complaint against her father understanding “that there was nothing more to expect from him”.
Also questioned about the fact that the accused, whose complaint was dismissed, could continue his life as an actor and director without consequences, she declared that she experienced this state of affairs “as the symbolism of yet another freedom from all possible moral limits.