Actor Richard Berry at the Cannes Film Festival, May 17, 2017. -
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After having deprogrammed a telefilm with Richard Berry, on February 12, the director of fiction at France Televisions explained, this Wednesday, explaining that she wanted to "protect" the actor and his daughter from a controversy that the broadcast could have provoked.
On February 12, the TV movie, "Damien's Law", in which the actor plays a lawyer, was to be broadcast on France 3 in the evening.
An attack on the presumption of innocence, according to the actor's lawyer
But, while the actor is targeted by charges of incest against his eldest daughter, which he rejects and on which the justice opened an investigation at the end of January, the channel had preferred to broadcast instead another TV movie of the same collection, "The law of Julien", this time with Jean-Pierre Darroussin in the title role.
Richard Berry's lawyer, Me Hervé Temime, denounced this decision Tuesday in "C to you" on France 5, seeing it as an attack on the presumption of innocence of his client.
"I took this decision with the concern of protecting and preserving, thinking I was doing the right thing, so as not to contribute to controversies" and "for the sake of appeasement and neutrality", declared Anne Holmes, director of fiction French at France Télévisions.
"It is obvious that Richard Berry enjoys a full presumption of innocence and if there are new roles to offer him they will be offered to him," she assured.
In addition, it is only a postponement of this replay of the TV movie, which will be rescheduled on France 3 at a later date this season, said the director.
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