Director Nicolas Bedos will be tried in September 2024 in Paris for sexual assault during an evening in a nightclub last May and for sexual harassment during an evening in 2018 against another woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Nicolas Bedos must appear on September 26 for “sexual assault” on Emma G. in Paris between May 11 and 12, 2023 “by a person in a state of obvious intoxication” and for “sexual harassment” on a second woman, Clémence A ., committed between June 14 and 15, 2018 in Paris, the prosecution confirmed to AFP.
Non-consensual kiss
These facts “did not give rise to any complaint”, declared in a message sent to AFP Me Julia Minkowski, who explains having “taken the initiative of publicizing” this trial “to prevent unacceptable untruths from being relayed again around this procedure.
According to her, the alleged facts are “a kiss on the neck on a woman in a nightclub in May 2023” and “sexual harassment on the other hand, towards a woman who describes, during a single and same evening in June 2018 at the home of a mutual friend, insistent and offensive behavior for which Nicolas Bedos apologized at the time.
According to a source close to the case, Emma G. denounced an unconsensual kiss on the neck and the fact that he forcibly grabbed her by the waist.
Prescription in two other cases
On the other hand, “a dismissal of proceedings due to the limitation period was decided” concerning facts denounced by two other women, specified the prosecution. According to Me Minkowski, this is “a denunciation of a sexual encounter in 1999, when Nicolas Bedos was 18 years old, considered to be non-consensual by a woman seven years his senior, at the home of the Bedos family then present in the house, where they had gone after a festive evening spent together.”
The other fact concerns “the denunciation of an attempted kiss on the mouth by a long-time friend during a vacation in the summer of 2016,” added the lawyer. “Nicolas Bedos is therefore obviously not being prosecuted for these facts,” underlines Me Minkowski.
Summoned to court in February
The actor, 44, was heard in a free hearing at the end of November in this preliminary investigation opened in July after the accusations of these four women.
Accused of touching in a nightclub by a 25-year-old young woman in June 2023, the actor is also already summoned to the Paris criminal court in February for sexual assault while drunk.
Son of the comedian Guy Bedos, Nicolas Bedos has made a name for himself by distinguishing himself in many fields: playwright, columnist, screenwriter and even actor. He turned the cream of French cinema, from Jean Dujardin (OSS117: Red alert in black Africa) to Isabelle Adjani (Masquerade), via Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet and Fanny Ardant.