The actor, director and comedian Dany Boon has filed a complaint against X including the theft and concealment of personal documents, leading to the opening of a preliminary investigation, after the publication in January of a video survey of Mediapart questioning his "fiscal patriotism".
Mediapart revealed that the artist has invested in speculative funds (or hedge funds) through tax havens in contradiction, according to the site, with his communication on tax patriotism, without evoking tax evasion. The investigation relied on documents detailing his wealth that Mediapart had procured. The comedian said a few days after the publication of this video that all his savings were legally placed "and declared in strict compliance with the law and tax duty", without commenting directly on information Mediapart.
One of the artist's advices says that this complaint does not target Mediapart. In an article posted online Friday, Mediapart claimed to be the subject of a complaint from the humorist for "theft", "breach of secrecy of correspondence", "breach of professional secrecy" and "concealment", which has resulted in the opening of a preliminary inquiry by the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office. However, one of Dany Boon's counsel, Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, assured that this complaint did not directly concern the online newspaper. "A complaint for theft, breach of professional secrecy, breach of confidentiality of correspondence, and the concealment of these offenses was filed against X and not against Mediapart.I do not understand why Mediapart feels concerned by this complaint," he said. she declared.
Dany Boon does not laugh anymore. After our revelations about his tax acrobatics, the artist filed a complaint against Mediapart and chose a procedure that circumvents the right of the press with only one purpose: to find our sources.
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Two journalists heard Monday by police. As part of the investigation, two journalists from Mediapart and the director of the video incriminated were heard on Monday by the judicial police, added the news site. According to Fabrice Arfi, co-head of investigations at Mediapart, this complaint has only one goal: to unmask the sources that allowed the online newspaper to conduct its investigation. Dany Boon, who "refused to answer our questions for months, does not dispute any of the information we have made public in this video survey," he says, but "he disputes the fact that we were able to make public ", and has" deliberately "chosen to" circumvent the right of the press to sue Mediapart, wrote the reporter on the news site. "Before the investigators of the judicial police, Mediapart has therefore refused to lend to a procedure that simply aims to 'criminalize' journalism ", and" opposed to police questions the secret of sources ", as permitted by law, concludes Fabrice Arfi.