Maïwenn lifts the veil on her version of her violent gesture towards Edwy Plenel. The filmmaker explains in the JDD assaulting the co-founder of Mediapart for a publication of his “hearing” in the case of Luc Besson, accused of rape by actress Sand Van Royune, which he disputes. The Court of Cassation will also render its decision on June 21 on these rape charges which were dismissed, confirmed on appeal.
“I don’t blame Mediapart the investigations they carried out concerning Luc Besson. I blame them for what they did to me”, specifies Maïwenn (her name, Le Besco, is not used, she signs her films with her first name only).
Maïwenn has not been seeing Luc Besson “for 20 years”
The filmmaker and actress assures that she met a journalist from Mediapart at the end of 2018 about the investigation of this media on Luc Besson, her former husband and father of her daughter, whom she says she has not frequented “for 20 years”. The director then told the journalist that she did not want to “take the floor”.
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”, emphasizes Maïwenn. “If nothing justifies attacking a journalist, nothing justifies violating a woman’s privacy,” she added.
Maïwenn had already publicly admitted in May, in the Quotidien program (TMC), having attacked Edwy Plenel, refusing to explain himself. The co-founder of Mediapart had filed a complaint in March against the actress and director for this attack. “A woman, previously seated, alone, at another table (in a Parisian restaurant) appeared and in a very short time grabbed (Edwy Plenel) violently by the hair, throwing his head back and sketching a spit on his face”, can we read there. Maïwenn was then identified by the restaurant staff.
“An investigation is open. Edwy Plenel was heard two weeks ago. The other witnesses are in the process of being heard”, had also indicated in mid-May the lawyer for the journalist, Me Pierre-Emmanuel Blard.