Since the beginning of January 2021, testimonies from incest victims have multiplied in the press and on social networks. More and more media personalities are accused of such facts, and those around them quickly find themselves drawn into the vortex. Thus, in the wake of the Duhamel affair, several close to the political scientist resigned from their senior positions. This is notably the case of Jean Veil, who chose to leave the Club du Siècle, or of Frédéric Mion, who gave up his post as director of Sciences Po Paris. Yep, it's obviously not good to have had friendly or professional relations with a man who is now suspected of rape. And it seems that Richard Berry, targeted by a complaint filed by his eldest daughter Coline, begins to feel it… He would have thus become persona non grata on the public service channels.
On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, the actor's lawyer made an unexpected revelation that shocked the set of C to you : “There is such a fear of social media today that you know what happened on Friday night? A film, in which Richard Berry is only an actor, has been canceled from France 3 […] Is that the presumption of innocence? ", Hervé Temime protested in front of the cameras of France 5.
Richard Berry's lawyer appeals to Roselyne Bachelot
Friday February 12, 2021, France 3 had in fact planned to broadcast the TV movie Damien’s Law: Equal to the Gods, in which Richard Berry takes the lead role. But it is finally Julien's law, played by Jean-Pierre Darroussin, that viewers were able to follow on their screens… Live in C to you, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine unveiled the response received by the channel: “So as not to disturb legal procedures, of which the press is made the accounts, of Richard Berry and his daughter, in agreement with the beneficiaries, France 3 shifts the programming of Damien's law”, announced the presenter. Thus, the case of incest is indeed at the center of this decision … which does not pass at all with Sophie Obadia, another of Richard Berry's lawyers.
A few minutes after her colleague's revelation, the lawyer went to the set of CNews to evoke this deprogramming. In the show Time for the pros, moderated by Pascal Praud, Sophie Obadia denounced “a very serious censorship ” and even “An unbearable and nauseating American wind, extremely serious”, from France 3. The actor's lawyer then spoke directly to politicians, urging them to take issue with the public broadcaster's decision: "I know that Madame Bachelot is sensitive to the presumption of innocence. If this deprogramming thing is true, then I am indeed asking for voices of Democrats to speak out that it is not possible. If we start doing this, for whatever charges, I'll let you imagine which world we turn to. It's unbearable", she finally concluded.
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