Director Nicolas Bedos will be tried on September 26, 2024 for "sexual assault" on a woman in Paris between May 11 and 12, 2023 "by a person in a state of obvious intoxication", and for "sexual harassment" of another woman committed between June 14 and 15, 2018 in Paris, announced Wednesday, December 20, his lawyer, Me Julia Minkowski.
The facts alleged against Nicolas Bedos "did not give rise to any complaint", declared in a message sent to Agence France-Presse Me Minkowski, who explains having "taken the initiative of publicizing" this trial "to avoid that unacceptable untruths are once again relayed around this procedure.”
According to the lawyer, the alleged facts are “a kiss on the neck of a woman in a nightclub in May 2023” and “sexual harassment on the other hand, towards a woman who describes, during one and the same evening in June 2018 at a mutual friend's house, an insistent and offensive behavior for which Nicolas Bedos apologized at the time.
Tried in February for sexual assault
“A dismissal of proceedings due to the statute of limitations was decided” concerning facts denounced by two other women, said the prosecution. According to Me Minkowski, this is “a denunciation of a sexual encounter in 1999, when Nicolas Bedos was 18 years old, considered non-consensual by a woman seven years his senior, at the home of the Bedos family then present in the house, where they had gone after a festive evening spent together”. The other fact concerns “the denunciation of an attempted kiss on the mouth by a long-time friend during a vacation in the summer of 2016,” added the lawyer.
The actor, 44, was heard in a free hearing at the end of November in this preliminary investigation opened in July after the accusations of these four women.
Accused of touching in a nightclub by a 25-year-old woman in June 2023, Nicolas Bedos is also already summoned to the Paris criminal court in February for sexual assault while drunk.
