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Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi & Carla Bruni Denounce Media Reports Of Sexual Assault Allegations Against Sofiane Bennacer
25.11.2022 - 21:51 / deadline.com
French-Italian actress Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has denounced media reports revealing that actor Sofiane Bennacer is under investigation following allegations of rape and violence, saying he is the victim of a “media lynching”.
Bennacer starred in Bruni-Tedeschi’s Cannes 2022 Palme d’Or contender Forever Young, a semi-autobiographical drama inspired by her experiences as a student at the Les Amandiers theatre school in Nanterre in the 1980s.
French media reported earlier this week that Bennacer had been placed under judicial control in October.
The measure prevents him from entering the Paris region as well as contacting accusers and witnesses in the affair. Bruni-Tedeschi has been named as one of the witnesses.
The news broke just days after Bennacer was announced on November 16 as being among the 32 young actors selected for the 2023 edition of France’s César Academy Revelations talent showcase.
The body announced on Tuesday it hadremoved him from the list following the news and was reappraising its rules around how to deal with candidates undergoing a judicial procedure. The body currently does not have a protocol.
Bennacer has publicly denied the accusations, saying he is rather the victim of harassment by a former girlfriend, who has bullied other women into testifying against him too.
Daily newspaper Libération published an in-depth, two-page investigative report on Friday, quoting a number of anonymized sources who said rumors of the accusations against Bennacer had been rife as the shoot of Forever Young began in early 2021.
One crew member said there had been unease about Bennacer’s presence on set, but an air of omerta had reigned throughout the shoot, with Bruni-Tedeschi standing by Bennacer on the
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