The legal battle began with Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roy’s police complaints filed in May and July 2018.
French filmmaker Luc Beson was definitively cleared of all charges in the rape case involving the Belgian-Dutch actress sand van roy.
The ruling was delivered on Wednesday (June 21) by the Cour de Cassation, France’s Supreme Court. The court brief, replicated by Varietysays that “after examining the admissibility of the appeal and the investigation files, the Cour de Cassation has determined that there is, at present, no means that allows the admission of the appeal.” As part of the ruling, it was ordered to Van Roy to pay Besson 2,500 euros.
The legal battle began with Van Roy’s police complaints filed in May and July 2018. The Paris prosecutor dismissed the case after a nine-month investigation in February 2019, citing lack of evidence. Van Roy then filed a civil complaint on the same charges in March 2019, which was once again dismissed after a three-year investigation in December 2021 and involved hearings with witnesses, including Besson’s ex-wife, the actor and director Maïwenn (“Jeanne du Barry”), with whom she has a daughter; and his ex-partner Anne Parillaud, an actress with whom he has two children. It also included expert opinions from the civil party and an interrogation of Besson. Van Roy later appealed the ruling and lost again.
The Court of Cassation ruling clears Besson of all charges in this case and prevents Van Roy from suing him on the same charges in France or anywhere else in Europe.. He previously tried in vain to file a lawsuit in Belgium.
The actress who had a small role in “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”, alleged that she and Besson had an abusive relationship that began on the set of “Valerian” and culminated in a rape on the night of May 17. 2018, at the Bristol Hotel in Paris.
“This decision upholds the removal in favor of Luc Besson and upholds all decisions in the last five years that found him not guilty,” Besson’s attorney, Thierry Marambert, said in a statement sent to Variety.
“It therefore puts a definitive end to this procedure started in 2018, during which Luc Besson was systematically acquitted by all the magistrates who examined the case,” Marambert continued.
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