This is the first time since the beginning of the case that she is speaking in front of a camera. Interviewed by BFM-TV in an interview broadcast Tuesday night, actress Sand Van Roy, who filed a complaint against Luc Besson for rape, returns to the charges against the producer and filmmaker.
"He knew it hurt." The 30-year-old Belgian-Dutch actress, who had met Luc Besson during a casting in 2015, before shooting under his direction in Valérian, the City of the Thousand Planets , filed a complaint on May 18, before filing a new complaint in July. For BFM-TV, she returns to an evening spent in a room at the Bristol hotel in Paris, during which she describes a violent and non-consensual relationship, which had convinced him to file a complaint.
"I said 'stop, you hurt me.' He did not stop, he was sadistic to me, he knew it hurt, he saw that I was crying, I was desperate, I did not did not know what to do, and he continued, "she explains.
At the time of filing her complaint, the next day, the medico-legal emergency doctors found in the actress a bruise to the eye and marks in the back, according to BFM-TV. Since the actress spoke about four non-consensual sex with Luc Besson. Faced with the investigators, she had confided maintain an intimate relationship with the filmmaker of 59 years for about two years.
Besson refutes the entirety of the charges. Contacted by BFM-TV, the producer's lawyer asserts in a statement that "Luc Besson refuted all the accusations made by Ms. Van Roy as part of the relationship they had for two years." He reiterated his denials in the presence of Mrs Van Roy ". "Like any citizen, Mr. Besson is presumed innocent," he adds.
While eight other women have since accused the filmmaker of inappropriate behavior, especially in Mediapart , Luc Besson was confronted December 12 Sand Van Roy, before the brigade of repression against the person (BRDP), after to have been heard in open court on October 2nd. The prosecution must decide soon what to do next.