Luc Besson defends accusations of rape

"Justice is expressed, now it's my turn." For over a year, Luc Besson remained silent in the face of accusations of sexual assault and rape. But after nine months of investigation, the complaint of Sand Van Roy, a 28-year-old Belgian-Dutch actress, was dismissed by the Paris public prosecutor who could not "characterize the offense denounced in all its elements. constitutive ".

The case is however far from being closed because the actress launched a new action in court with constitution of civil party which resulted, Wednesday, October 2, on the opening of a judicial information for "rapes".

For the first time since the breakup, the producer chose to speak on BFMTV to give its version of the facts. Luc Besson admits having had a "loving" relationship with Sand Van Roy. Their idyll lasted two years. A relationship he describes as "sincere".

"We each brought something, I offered him listening, tenderness."

"Never raped a woman of my life"

However, this night of May 17, 2018, when the actress joined Luc Besson in his Bristol hotel room in Paris, she is subject to a violent relationship and not consented, she assured a few months ago in front of our camera.

"I said, 'Stop, you hurt me.' He did not stop, he was sadistic to me, he knew it hurt, he saw that I was crying, I was desperate, I did not know what to do, and he continued. "

The producer has always denied the facts and still insists:

"This case is a lie from A to Z. I have never raped a woman in my life I have never raised a hand on a woman I have never threatened a woman I have never coerced physically or morally a woman to anything, "he defends himself. "I have never drugged a woman, this is a lie," says the one who describes himself as "nice", "sensitive", in need of affection.

A "malaise" that was revealed to him by a work done with a psychologist, he explains.

"I understood that it came from childhood, my parents divorced, I was placed in boarding school, I suffered from a lack of love and a deep loneliness. but it made me feel good to know it was from there, "he says.

For years, to deceive loneliness, the director has, by his own admission, chained extramarital affairs.

"It happened to me several times in 20 years of marriage, I met women who gave me tenderness". With Sand Van Roy, "we found ourselves on this lack of affection, that's what binds us".

"I made mistakes"

In this perpetual search for affection, Luc Besson admits that some of his attitudes could have "inconvenienced" women.

"I'm touch and kind, in my environment 90% of people are like that, it's never been inappropriate, in any case, not voluntarily, but I understand that we could have taken it wrong. I behaved in a manner that may have embarrassed someone, I apologize for it, it was involuntary, now I'll be careful. "

At 60, Luc Besson said he regretted this relationship with the actress "because there was a relationship of subordination, even if I did not live like that, it is obvious". And to continue, moved to tears:

"Adultery will not happen to me anymore, this story allowed me to face my lie, I made mistakes, I lied to my wife and children, that's what makes me the worst, "he slips in a quavering voice. "I hope she (Sand Van Roy, ed) will also get rid of his lie, it will do him good," he adds.

"At the disposal of justice"

With the opening of this new judicial information for "rapes", the filmmaker is not finished with justice. In this interview with Apolline de Malherbe, recorded before the official opening of this new investigation, Luc Besson was already considering this eventuality and said then "at the disposal of justice", while stating that "during that time, my children suffer, I suffer. "

Eight other women also accuse the director of the Big Blue gestures, or even sexual assault, in testimonies collected by Mediapart, for largely prescribed facts. A preliminary investigation against the filmmaker is also still open in Paris since February to examine the accusations of a ninth woman interviewed by the news site, which has not yet been heard by the investigators, according to a source close to the file cited by AFP. But here again, Luc Besson refutes the accusations:

"These women are talking about situations I do not know."