Filmmaker Maïwenn told the Sunday Journal this Saturday, June 10, that he pushed her to attack Edwy Plenel on February 22. She mentions a publication by Mediapart of her “hearing” in the Luc Besson case. The father of his daughter is accused of rape by an actress, which he disputes.
“I do not blame Mediapart for the investigations they have carried out concerning Luc Besson. I blame them for what they did to me, ”says Maïwenn (her name, Le Besco, is not used, she signs her films with her first name only). She assures that she met a journalist from Mediapart at the end of 2018 about the investigation of this media on Luc Besson, whom she says no longer frequent “for twenty years”. The director then tells the reporter that she doesn’t want to “speak.”
But, at the beginning of 2021, Mediapart publishes “an article with bits of his hearing” made in June 2020 before the judicial police. “It’s a cataclysm. I felt a moral rape, “said Maïwenn. “If there is no justification for attacking a journalist, there is no justification for violating the privacy of a woman,” she adds. She goes on to accuse Edwy Plenel of “using MeToo as a shield”.
The actress and director had already publicly admitted in May, in the program Daily (TMC), having attacked Edwy Plenel, then refusing to explain. Edwy Plenel had filed a complaint in March for this attack. The president and publication director of Mediapart relates that on February 22, while he was having dinner with a lawyer in a restaurant in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, “a woman, previously seated, alone, at another table appeared and in a very short period of time grabbed [him] violently by the hair, throwing his head back and spitting in his face”. The woman, later identified by restaurant staff as Maïwenn Le Besco, “rushed out of the restaurant without anyone being able to intervene given the speed of the action”.
“An investigation is open. Edwy Plenel was heard two weeks ago. The other witnesses are being heard,” the journalist’s lawyer, Me Pierre-Emmanuel Blard, told AFP in mid-May. The Court of Cassation will deliver its decision on June 21 on the rape accusations made by actress Sand Van Roy against Luc Besson.
