映画監督２人、不同意性交と性的虐待の訴えで拘束 仏警察

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランス当局は１日、著名な映画監督のブノワ・ジャコー氏（７７）とジャック・ドワイヨン氏（８０）について、不同意性交と性的虐待の訴えが起こされている事態を受けて身柄を拘束した。（写真は第、６８回ベルリン国際映画祭に自身の作品『エヴァ』を出品し、会見に臨むブノワ・ジャコー監督）
　俳優で映画監督でもあるジュディット・ゴドレーシュ氏（５２）は今年に入り、自身が未成年だった頃にジャコー監督から不同意での性交を強要され、ドワイヨン監督からも性的暴行を受けたとして正式に訴えを起こした。２人は共に容疑を否定している。
　ゴドレーシュ氏はジャコー監督について、１９８６年から１９９２年まで「倒錯」的な関係が続き、不健全に「支配」されていたと主張している。８６年当時はまだ１４歳だった。
　他にも、俳優のイジルド・ル・ベスコさん（４１）が、自身が１６歳の時に当時５２歳のジャコー監督との関係が始まり、交際期間の９年間に不同意での性交を強いられたと主張している。
　情報筋によれば、俳優のジュリア・ロワさん（３４）も、ジャコー監督から「暴力を受け、道徳的に束縛される関係が数年間続いた」とし、その間に性的暴行を受けたと訴えている。
　ＡＦＰ記者は１日朝、弁護士を伴ってパリ市内の警察署に出向くジャコー、ドワイヨン両監督の姿を確認している。
　司法筋によれば、両氏は２日夕方まで勾留され、告発者らの前で取り調べを受ける可能性もあるという。
　検察当局は２人の勾留を認めたが、現時点では何の罪も確定しておらず、推定無罪の扱いであることを付け加えた。
　ゴドレーシュ氏はインスタグラムに、２５歳年上のジャコー監督の隣に並ぶ１０代の頃の自分の写真を投稿し、「（問題と対峙するのに）必要な強さが自分にあるかは分からない。でも、強くあってみせる。彼女（幼い頃の自分）のために」と宣言している。
　ゴドレーシュ氏の告発を受け、フランスでは、セクシュアルハラスメント（性的嫌がらせ）に対する告発運動「＃ＭｅＴｏｏ（私も）」が再び勢いづいている。
　同氏が映画業界の監視団体の設立を訴えた後、議会は５月、映画などの文化部門での性暴力やジェンダーに基づく暴力の実態を調査する委員会の創設を決議した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/07/02-18:34）

French authorities detained Monday two leading arthouse film directors, Benoit Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, for questioning over accusations of sexual abuse, as a renewed #MeToo reckoning rocks France's film industry.
Their interrogations over the alleged abuse, some dating back to the 1980s and all of which they deny, comes as activists say French cinema has too long provided cover for abuse.
An AFP journalist saw Jacquot, 77, and Doillon, 80, arrive at a Paris police station on Monday morning accompanied by their lawyers.
Judicial sources said they could be held until Tuesday evening, and potentially be questioned in the presence of their accusers.
Judith Godreche, a 52-year-old actor and director, earlier this year formally accused Jacquot of rape and Doillon of sexual assault when she was a minor, accusations both men deny.
She has described Jacquot as having had an unhealthy hold over her during a relationship of perversion with him that started when she was 14, from 1986 to 1992.
And she has accused Doillon of putting his fingers down my panties during a screen test for one of his films when she was 15 and still with Jacquot.
Several other actors have also filed complaints against both men.
Isild Le Besco, 41, has alleged Jacquot raped her between 1998 and 2007 during a relationship that started when she was 16 and he was 52.
Julia Roy, a 34-year-old actor who has appeared in several of his films, has accused him of sexual assault in a context of violence and moral constraint which lasted several years, a source close to the case said.
Sources close to the case said their interrogation could last until late Tuesday and include a confrontation with those accusing them.
Le Besco has also claimed that Doillon made advances during work sessions, while actor Anna Mouglalis alleged the filmmaker forcefully kissed her in 2011.
- 'I'm crying' -
The directors' lawyers said that there had been no need to detain them in order to question them, and that they should be considered innocent until proven guilty.
Jacquot's lawyer, Julia Minkowski, said her client would finally be able to express himself before the law, denouncing what she called the unacceptable excesses of media coverage on the issue.
Doillon's attorney, Marie Dose, said no legal criteria could justify his being detained for questioning 36 years after the incident alleged by Godreche, and he could have answered queries without being held in custody.
The prosecutor's office confirmed the two men's detention, but added that both were presumed innocent for the time being.
Godreche on Instagram said she was deeply moved.
I'm crying, she wrote.
I don't know if I have the strength, but I will have it. I will have it... For her, she wrote, posting a picture of her teenage self next to Jacquot, 25 years her senior.
Her lawyer, Laure Heinich, declined to comment.
Since breaking her silence, Godreche has become a leading voice in France's #MeToo movement.
After she appealed for a cinema oversight body, French lawmakers in May voted to create a commission to investigate sexual and gender-based violence in the film industry and other cultural sectors.
The head of France's top cinema institution, Dominique Boutonnat, stepped down on Friday after he was convicted of sexually assaulting his godson in 2020.
Boutonnat was given a three-year prison sentence, two of them suspended. He will be able to serve his one-year jail term at home wearing an electronic bracelet.
And cinema legend Gerard Depardieu, 75, is to stand trial in October for sexually assaulting two women.
He also risks a second trial after he was charged in 2020 with the rape of an actor in 2018 when she was 22.
He denies all the claims.