Director Nicolas Bedos will go on trial in Paris in September 2024 for a “kiss on the neck in a nightclub” that prosecutors call a “sexual assault” and for sexual harassment of another woman on a different evening, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Nicolas Bedos must be tried on September 26 for “sexual harassment” of a woman in Paris between May 11 and 12, 2023 “by a person in a state of obvious intoxication” and for “sexual harassment” of a second woman between May 14 and 12 May 2023 to appear in court on June 15, 2018 in Paris confirmed the charges to AFP.
These facts “did not give rise to a complaint,” Julia Minkowski said in a message sent to AFP, explaining that she “took the initiative to make this process public in order to prevent unacceptable falsehoods from being spread again in connection with this procedure become”.
According to her, the alleged offenses are “a kiss on the neck of a woman in a nightclub in May 2023” and “sexual harassment, on the other hand, towards a woman, which she describes on the same evening in June 2018 in the home of a common friend, persistent and offensive behavior, for which Nicolas Bedos apologized at the time.
On the other hand, because of the facts complained of by two other women, “it was decided to discontinue the proceedings due to the statute of limitations,” the prosecution said.
According to Me Minkowski, this is “an allegation of a sexual encounter in 1999, when Nicolas Bedos was 18 years old, and was considered non-consensual by a woman seven years older than him, in the home of the Bedos family, who were present at the time.” House where they had left after a festive evening spent together.
The other matter concerns “the report of an attempted kiss on the mouth of a long-time friend during a vacation in the summer of 2016,” the lawyer added.
“Nicolas Bedos will obviously not be prosecuted for these acts,” emphasizes Me Minkowski.
The 44-year-old actor was given a free hearing at the end of November in the investigation launched in July following the allegations made by these four women.
The actor was accused of touching him in a nightclub by a 25-year-old young woman in June 2023 and was summoned to the Paris criminal court in February on charges of sexual assault while drunk.
Nicolas Bedos, son of comedian Guy Bedos, has made a name for himself by excelling in many fields: as a playwright, columnist, screenwriter and even as an actor.
He has filmed the elite of French cinema, from Jean Dujardin (“OSS117: Red Alert in Black Africa”) to Isabelle Adjani (“Mascarade”), including Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet and Fanny Ardant.