Ary Abittan is accused of rape by a young woman. The actor was confronted with evidence qualified as marks of “unheard-of violence”, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer.
New revelations in the Ary Abittan case, accused of rape on October 31, 2021: on the Touche Pas à Mon Poste set, columnist Guillaume Genton related information given by Arash Derambarsh, the lawyer for the alleged victim. He transmitted new factual elements about what seems to have happened, and adds elements of violence to the rape complaint. “unheard of”.
Indeed, after filing a complaint, the police carried out a search of the actor’s home. He.she.sy would have found bloody sheets. In addition, the alleged victim had injuries recorded by the medico-judicial unit. The young woman, a student in her twenties, “said physically and mentally traumatized by the facts”, and has not been back to school since that evening, living as a recluse. Also according to the victim’s lawyer, facts of this type have already occurred during their relationship.
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The actor had first denied the facts when he was brought before a magistrate of the Paris prosecutor’s office and to be confronted with a “incriminating material element”. He faces up to 15 years in prison for aggravated rape and violence and continues to refute the version given by the victim. According to Guillaume Gendron, Ary Abittan is currently confined with his family in a hotel where he would think about a communication strategy to consider the aftermath.
Initially, the young woman did not wish to file a complaint so as not to “taint the career of the actor”, but simply report the facts in a handrail. It was the criminal office of the Paris prosecutor’s office that was alerted, and the judicial police then went to Ary Abittan to arrest him and place him in police custody.