The president of the National Cinema Center (CNC) Dominique Boutonnat will be tried in June for sexual assault on his godson, the Nanterre prosecutor's office told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday March 6, confirming information from the website L' Informed.
“The planned date for this trial is currently set for June 14, 2024,” specified the public prosecutor, while this case returned to the forefront when the actress Judith Godrèche asked Thursday before the Senate for “withdrawal” of Mr. Boutonnat. Questioned by AFP, neither the CNC nor Mr. Boutonnat's lawyer wished to react.
Dominique Boutonnat, who vigorously contests the allegations, was accused in October 2020 by his godson of acts dating back to August 2020, when the latter was 21 years old.
In the complaint consulted by Agence France-Presse (AFP), the young man accuses his godfather, with whom he has no family connection, of having tried to “masturbate” him on the night of August 3, 2020, after swimming naked in the pool. “I masturbate him so that he stops touching me,” he denounces, assuring that his godfather then tried to force oral sex on him.
From the beginning, the president of the CNC has spoken of “consensual kisses”, “gestures of affection that he stopped when he felt from his godson that this gesture could have degenerated into something else”. his lawyer Emmanuel Marsigny said in 2022.
