” Remove your hand ! ” In the movie I don’t give a fuckreleased last March at the cinema, the character camped by Adèle Exarchopoulos rejected the one interpreted by Arthur Egloff, which is too enterprising. The 34-year-old young man – who plays the role of a steward – curbs his ardor and goes to prepare pasta for his stewardess friend from a low-cost company, with whom he partied and drank a lot of alcohol. The 7-minute scene eerily echoes accusations of sexual assault leveled by a real-life young woman at the French actor and playwright. Five years after the facts denounced, Arthur Egloff is tried, this Friday, before the 10th correctional chamber of the Paris court.
On June 8, the actor was arrested and taken into custody by the police of the 2nd judicial police district. An investigation was opened after the young woman filed a complaint at the beginning of the year for “rape by a person in a state of intoxication”. As revealed at the time The Parisian, she explained that she was sexually assaulted by Arthur Egloff on July 28, 2017, at his home in Brussels. According to her story, the complainant was in Belgium that Friday to attend the birthday of a loved one. After celebrating the event, she went to spend the night with the actor, a friend met at the time of high school, who had settled across Quiévrain a few years earlier.
Disputed charges
But during the night, she would have woken up suddenly, and realized that he was imposing a digital penetration on her. She would have pushed the actor who was, like her, very drunk, and would have found refuge in the living room, where she would have fallen asleep again. In her complaint, filed five years later, she explains that she realized during therapy that it was a rape that traumatized her. In front of the investigators, the defendant admitted to having been enterprising with his friend. But he formally denied having raped her, stating that he had given up after finding that she was not consenting.
The qualification of rape was finally abandoned by the prosecution, which returned Arthur Egloff to court for “sexual assault”. “My client is calm, he has always disputed the facts since the beginning of the case”, indicates to 20 minutes his lawyer, Me Hector Lajouanie, adding that he reserved his other statements for justice.
Other sexual assault charges
However, this is not the first time that Arthur Egloff’s behavior with women has been criticized. As the Belgian press had reported, during the preview of I don’t give a fuck in Brussels, at the Pathé Palace cinema, last March, several spectators took the floor to denounce sexual assaults allegedly committed by the actor. Referring to the passage with Adele Exarchopoulos, one of them asked the directors “how this scene was scripted or improvised, since Arthur sexually assaulted several of [s]are friends”. Another, according to the magazine Mosquito, said “to be a victim of Arthur Egloff” and told “how difficult it was to witness such a scene in the film”. “It gives me chills to see on screen the person who assaulted me in real life! »
About fifteen women then got up and left the room. The actor and playwright, trained at the higher institute of the arts in 2008, immediately responded to the media BX1 to have “heard and listened to the words and the speeches expressed against (his) opposition”. “And I take full measure of their weight and gravity. »