Marseille (AFP)

Dylan Robert, César 2019 for the best male hope for the film Shéhérazade, was arrested and imprisoned in Marseille as part of the investigation into the robbery of a restaurant in 2018, we learned Monday from a source familiar with the matter .

The 19-year-old Marseille actor was arrested in connection with an open criminal investigation for theft with a weapon and a criminal association following the robbery of a restaurant in Marseille on October 25, 2018, said this source, confirming a information from Provence.

The young man was arrested Friday at Saint-Charles station in Marseille, when he got off a train.

Dylan Robert had known notoriety in May 2018, during the presentation of "Shéhérazade" at the Cannes festival. It is therefore after its ascent of the Cannes markets and after the film's release on French screens, in September 2018, that these facts took place.

A few months later, in February 2019, he received the César for best male hope, while his film partner, Kenza Fortas, also from Marseilles, was crowned best female hope.

Since "Shéhérazade", the young actor has shot several short films as well as in "Vampires", a Netflix series soon on small screens.

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