French Prosecutors Request Director Benoit Jacquot Be Charged With Rape – Report
Film director Benoit Jacquot is set to face trial after French prosecutors requested rape charges, according to reports in France.
Doillon was taken into custody in Paris alongside fellow French filmmaker Jacques Doillon earlier this week following allegations they both sexually assaulted actor Judith Godrèche as a child.
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Godrèche alleges that Jacquot raped her in 1986, when she was 14, while Doillon sexually assaulted her on set.
Both men have denied the claims.
According to French newspaper Le Monde, prosecutors have requested charges against Jacquot relating to the rape of two other actors. One of the actors alleges the rape occurred between 1998 and 2000 and in 2007 during a relationship that began with the director when she was underage while the other actor has accused him of sexually assaulting her between 2013 and 2018. Jacquot has denied the claims.
However prosecutors have not requested charges in relation to Godreche’s allegations as yet, the newspaper reported.
Doillon was released on Tuesday evening for medical reasons, according to the report, citing the prosecutor’s office, but added no decision regarding charges has yet been made.
Godreche first went public with her allegations earlier this year. “It was hallucinating,” she told a radio station of Doillon. “He got rid of the actor and took his place and all of the sudden he decided that there was going to be a sex scene between he and I.”
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