Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon in police custody: one of the two directors presented before the judge

The police custody of Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon lasted nearly forty-eight hours. At the end of these two days, the former will be brought before the judge while the latter was released without prosecution.

“I cry. My eyes are no longer eyes. From all this. From all this. From all this. I don’t know if I’ll have the strength but I will. I will have it, I will have it. The strength. For her“. This speech was made by Judith Godrèche after learning of the police custody of Benoit Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, whom she accuses of sexual violence.

The two famous French directors were summoned this Monday, July 1st, to the Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM), located in Paris. They were questioned as part of an investigation launched for “rape of a minor under 15 by a person in authorityrape, violence by a cohabitant, and sexual assault on a minor over 15 years old by a person in authority”, according to information from Parisian. Accusations that both firmly deny.

Police custody of Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon: the two directors defend themselves

According to our colleagues, Me Julia Minkowski, Benoît Jacquot’s lawyer, considered that her client had suffered an attack on the presumption of innocence since the outbreak of the affair. She also criticized the framework of his hearing during his police custody. For her part, Me Marie Dosé, who defends Jacques Doillon, declared that her client “should have been heard in the context of a free hearing in view of the age of the facts, their statute of limitations acquired for more than two decades, and the inevitable dismissal without further action which will close this investigation.”

The latter’s speech seems to have borne fruit since, according to information from AFP, reported by our colleagues at ParisianJacques Doillon, has was released without prosecution, while Benoît Jacquot will be presented to justice this Wednesday, July 3. For the time being, Judith Godrèche has not yet reacted to this new development.