A month later, confirming that he had indeed attacked the journalist, the director revealed in the columns JDD: the reasons for this gesture on June 11, Sunday.
“I don’t blame Mediapart: He started their investigation of Luc Besson. I blame them for what they did to me.” A month after confirming on the set of “Daily” that he had indeed assaulted Mediapart president Edwi Plenell at a restaurant in February, Maiven explained the reasons for his actions in the columns. Sunday Newspaper (JDD) June 11, 2023: The director first said he met with the reporter Mediapart: In 2018, as part of an investigation into sexual assault allegations against her ex-husband (from 1992 to 1997), Luc Besson. The two would then trade off for a few hours.
“He evokes the testimonies of various women and describes to me a man I don’t know, says the filmmaker JDD:. I’m not close with him anymore, we just have a warm relationship related to parenthood. I listen carefully. Luke has been accused of serious wrongdoing, so I’m reserving judgment on the accusation. Before adding: “But I also realize that when I tell him a thing or two that doesn’t sit right with him, he doesn’t take it into account. However, the match is going well.” At the time, he reportedly told a reporter that he did not want to “talk” publicly about the case.
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“cataclysm”
The content of this discussion will never be published Mediapart:. In June 2020, Maiven was heard by the judicial police as part of the investigation against Luc Besson. However, in early 2021, he was surprised to discover “an article from his audition” on the Mediapart website. “It’s a cataclysm (…) I felt moral rape, said the director My king (2015). If nothing justifies attacking a journalist, nothing justifies violating a woman’s private life.
And the author of the script should continue. How can hearings about my personal life be made public, enabling us to clarify the debate and serve the common good? I was a simple witness who had not visited the defendant for twenty years. He also accused Edwi Plainel of using me as a “shield” as well. The famous phrase “When a woman says no, it’s no” also refers to her. I said I don’t want to talk and they don’t respect it, it’s that simple.”
Mediapart’s response
Remarks by members of the editorial staff Mediapart:. The latter explained in a blog post that he published the content of this hearing first Paris game And Point, before being taken over by their editorial staff, months later. The newspaper also criticized the article JDD:, lamenting that its reporters could not be contacted and that they were engaged “without any conflicting views.” “We read there, dumbfounded, the endless justification for the attack on journalist Edwi Plenell (for whom legal proceedings are underway) and an all-out attack on our work on gender and sexual violence based on editorial priorities. several years of our editorial staff”, can be read in this message.
Journalists assured that Maiven met journalist Marine Turci in October 2018 and that nothing was filtered from their conversation. The editorial claimed that it intended to “respect the consent of victims in cases of gender-based and sexual violence.” “In fact, much more is at stake. it’s about the questioning of a newspaper that has never given up investigating #MeToo, in all places of power, in all circles, including cinema (…), continues. the ticket. Maiven did not hide it. in recent years, he has often criticized me as well, defending that principle.
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Argument in a restaurant
In early May, Maywen admitted to assaulting Edwie Plenell on the set of Daily, drawing laughter from her interviewers as part of a controversial sequence. “It was not an arrogant laugh, however, the actress clarifies. I was carried away by the laughter in the room. Two months ago, the journalist filed a complaint. The two would indeed meet at a restaurant on the 12the Paris region on February 22. Maven would then grab Edwi Plenell by the hair, and this “with violence”. He will toss her head back before spitting in her face.
When asked how she felt at the time, Maiven said JDD: “With a sense of reaction to the aggression that I suffered two years ago and which has been bothering me for two years now.” After the incident, Edwi Plenell would apologize to the author of the film. “I proposed a discussion, he assured the latter. He refused. He doesn’t want to discuss, nor does he try to understand, but I just bow down. He wants to put us in a balance of power, from dominant to dominant. That’s why I refused.”
Maiwen also felt that her gesture was “very little compared to what she suffered”. Not to mention that the betrayal comes from a woman who also wrote a book about me,” he said. Meanwhile, on June 21, the Court of Cassation will make its decision on the rape charges against Luc Besson, which were rejected in the spring of 2022 on appeal. The director maintains his innocence.
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