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Double Cesarean actress Sara Forestier filed a complaint against actor Nicolas Duvauchelle for a slap on a set in 2017. The information was revealed by Mediapart and confirmed this Wednesday 4 december by the Paris Prosecutor’s Office, which opened an inquiry. The actor disputes the actress’s statements. On 7 November, before the National Assembly’s commission of inquiry into violence in the cultural world, Sara Forestier denounced a “slap” coming from an actor.
In a video interview with Mediapart broadcast on Tuesday 3 December, the actress directly implicated Nicolas Duvauchelle, explaining that after a dispute over a “nonsense” at the beginning of filming Good man, in 2017, the actor allegedly got angry and slapped her in front of witnesses. “I know what I went through. […] he slaps me, I say in front of everyone: “he slapped me, take me to the police station promptly”“», reports the actress, who specifies that she has filed a complaint for this violence.
Requested, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office confirmed this on Wednesday “that on 31 March 2023 Sara Forestier filed a complaint with the Privas Prosecutor’s Office [en Ardèche, ndlr], which renounced responsibility for that of Paris on 30 August 2024, after several failures by the complainant, who had been asked for details. “He reported slaps and insults during a shooting that occurred about six years earlier (without specifying the date, place, witness or marital nature).The Paris prosecutor’s office referred further investigations to the 11th arrondissement police station. is further clarified.
Complaints from an ex-partner
«Also, complaints of violence or threats presented by one of his former companions [visant Nicolas Duvauchelle] were closed due to the absence of a sufficiently serious crime, in May 2016, May 2019, July 2021″, the public prosecutor also adds.
In X’s messages of 8 november, after the actress’s appearance before the National Assembly, Duvauchelle described her as “mythomaniac” and of “false victim”. “I’m straight in my boots, I never slapped her,” he said, adding that he had “of witnesses” in support. “I have behaved in the most respectful manner on set for over twenty-five years,” he also said.
Faced with these messages,Sara Forestier,who received the César for Best Promise in 2005 for Dodge by Abdellatif kechiche and the 2011 César as best actress for names of people by Michel Leclerc,indicated at Mediapart that he planned to file a defamation complaint this week.