• The complaint. "I said 'stop, you hurt me'. And he didn't stop"

French film director Luc Besson denied the allegations of rape by Belgian-Dutch actress and model Sand Van Roy in an exclusive interview with the French television network BFMTV.

"This story is a lie from A to Z," said the director of Nikita, hard to kill , The Professional (Leon) , The Fifth Element and Valerian and the city of a thousand planets in an interview that BFMTV has issued this Tuesday night and from which the chain has advanced some excerpts.

Van Roy, 28, denounced Luc Besson, 60, in May 2018 for rape one day after meeting him at a luxury Parisian hotel . The actress assured the researchers that she had been maintaining intimate relationships with the director for two years and that she had felt compelled to consent given her professional relationships. Van Roy had a minor role in the movie Taxi 5 , produced by Besson.

The actress again denounced the director in July 2018 for previous events. Van Roy argues that the director violated him four times , something he denies.

After nine months of investigation, the Paris Prosecutor's Office filed last February the first complaint of violation against Besson. On October 2, a Parisian judge reopened the case , following the second complaint filed by the actress.

"I have never forced a woman to anything"

" I did not rape this woman, I have not raped a woman in my life . I have never raised a woman's hand. I have never threatened a woman. I have never physically or morally forced a woman to anything. I have never drugged a woman. woman as I read somewhere . It's a lie, "says Besson in the interview with BFMTV.

Following Van Roy's complaint, nine other women denounced the director of El Gran Azul for displaced gestures and sexual assaults, according to the testimonies collected by the French online newspaper Mediapart.

Besson acknowledges in the interview that he had "for two years" a relationship with Van Roy . "A relationship that was an emotional relationship," according to the director, who confesses that he has been unfaithful on several occasions to his wife. The director has been married since 2004 with Canadian producer Virginie Besson-Silla, his fourth wife. The couple has three children. The director has two other children from previous marriages.

"I have betrayed my wife and my children. It has not only happened to me once, it has happened to me several times in 20 years of marriage," confessed the director, who has just published in France an autobiography about the first 30 years of his life titled Enfant terrible .

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