Anouchka Delon’s lawyer, Frank Berton, estimated on Friday that the reinforced curatorship measure under which Alain Delon was placed the day before by a judge in Montargis (Loiret) was “excessive” and undoubtedly experienced as a humiliation by the 88-year-old actor.
During the hearing organized on Thursday, Mr. Berton said on RTL that he had “agreed with the opinion of Alain Delon’s lawyer, saying that this is perhaps an excessive measure”. “Why not continue the safeguarding measure that had been announced two months ago or take a simple curatorship measure? “, he asked.
“He hasn’t lost his mind”
The sacred monster of cinema, who suffered a stroke in 2019 and also suffers from lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system), had been placed under judicial protection since January with the designation of a legal representative “for his medical monitoring”. This measure was converted on Thursday into “enhanced curatorship”.
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It is “a heavy measure”, taken “when the protected adult needs to be supervised in the acts of daily life” and which prevents him in particular from disposing of his money as he wishes, recalled the lawyer, specifying that Alain Delon’s curator would be the “external” person who already assumed the role of legal representative. “I think this measure is excessive and what’s more, it is humiliating all the same. It’s something for him that must be difficult to live with” because “he hasn’t lost his mind,” said Mr. Berton.
According to him, Alain Delon “watches the news, he expresses himself. There was an expert opinion in January which said that there were certainly some alterations in his discernment but no abolition of his discernment,” underlined his daughter’s lawyer. “Anouchka will do what her father does: if her father appeals, she will appeal,” he added.