Eleven months after the events, Maïwenn Le Bresco was tried. While dining in a restaurant in the 12th arrondissement of Paris on February 22, the 47-year-old director noticed the presence of Edwy Plenel, seated with her lawyer Jean-Pierre Mignard. Angry at the founder of Mediapart – who would have published without her consent a testimony linked to the Luc Besson affair -, the producer went towards the journalist, beforegrab her by the hair to tilt her head back and spit in his face. Stunned, the reporter subsequently demanded, through lawyers, an apology from the actress, for “stopping it there”. But faced with the refusal formulated by the actress, the president of Mediapart decided to take legal action. Tuesday January 16, the latter decided.
At the end of the procedure, the one who carried out Polish in 2011 was fined 400 euros for “violence not resulting in any incapacity for work” by the Paris police court. But that’s not all. She must also pay 1,500 euros in damages to Mediapartas well as 1 symbolic euro to his victimprecise The Parisian in an article published immediately.
Maïwenn: neither excuses nor regrets
Faced with the verdict, Edwy Plenel said he was satisfied with this “example of principle”at the microphone of Parisian. And to continue: “We don’t hit a journalist just because we don’t like an article. Letting this law of the jungle proliferate is open a Pandora’s box of which all journalists could be victims.“
For her part, Maïwenn sticks to her positions. In his opinion, this spit which is not “not released as [elle] wanted it” was a gesture “political and symbolic”. This is why, if she concedes that it is not allowed to “take justice into your own hands”, the one who was married to Luc Besson from 1992 to 1997 once again refused to apologize in the room. audience, before asserting thatshe did not regret her actions in the slightest..
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