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Comedian Ary Abittan has been excluded from a series for M6.

In "The Man of Our Lives", he was to play the main character, a crook leaving his wife overnight after emptying his bank account.

After his indictment for rape, he was replaced by actor Jonathan Zaccaï.

The actor Ary Abittan, indicted for rape after the accusations of a woman and placed under judicial supervision, will be replaced in a series for M6.

He had started filming for this new fiction in mid-October, before the case exploded in early November.

According to

TéléStar

, Jonathan Zaccaï, an actor best known for his role as Raymond in

Le Bureau des Légendes

, will take his place.

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15 additional days of shooting

The scenes already boxed by Ary Abittan will therefore be returned.

Enough to extend by 15 days the filming of the series in four episodes, called 

The Man of Our Lives. 

It tells the story of a woman whose companion disappears overnight after emptying her bank account.

She then discovers that he has done the same thing to other women.

Ary Abittan was to play the role of this crook.

The 47-year-old actor was arrested Sunday, November 1 and taken into custody at the 1st district police station of the Paris judicial police.

The day before, on the evening of Saturday, a young woman with whom he had an intimate relationship, had filed a complaint against him for acts of rape.

After 48 hours in police custody, Ary Abittan was presented to an examining magistrate who indicted him for rape and placed under judicial supervision.

The young woman, aged 23, accuses the actor of having imposed sexual practices on him to which she would not have consented, which the actor disputes.