While director Maïwenn admitted to having assaulted Edwy Plenel during his appearance on Wednesday May 10, 2023 in Daily on TMC, the journalist’s lawyer, Maître Pierre-Emmanuel Blard, reacted to these remarks with the site Puremedias.com.
As part of the promotion of his next film, the director Maiwenn was invited on the set of the Quotidien show Wednesday May 10, 2023 on TMC. During her appearance on Yann Barthès’ show, the filmmaker, whose new feature film will be screened at the opening of the next Cannes Film Festival, admitted to having actually assaulted Edwy Plenel. The actress, however, claimed not to have “receipt of complaint” from the journalist. For his part, the lawyer for the director of Mediapart, Maître Pierre-Emmanuel Blardreacted to Maïwenn’s comments on Thursday May 11, 2023, on the Puremedias.com site.
“My client was even heard by the police to confirm the comments that had been made in his complaint. The police services began to hear the witnesses present at the time of the scene. All this to confirm that the procedure has been launched”, he first assured, while specifying that “the complaint was indeed filed on March 9, 2022“. “There is no reason for her to receive the complaint at home, as she said”, he added, before emphasizing that Maïwenn “will most certainly be questioned” by the police during the investigation. “Whether she acknowledges the facts, it means that his audition will go very quickly. She will have nothing more to add in front of the police and the file will be in the state“, has indicated Pierre-Emmanuel Blard.
“Maïwenn treated this case with disdain,” says Edwy Plenel’s lawyer
Edwy Plenel’s lawyer also believes that the filmmaker’s speech will “ultimately facilitating the work of the police“.”It was very complicated to dispute the facts because there are no less than four witnesses present and who can attest, in addition to the victim, that Maïwenn Le Besco has exercised violence. It was complicated for her, given the promotional campaign she is putting in place, to challenge the facts. The question that arises above all is: for what reasons did she commit this violence? She’s going to have to say more because her answer was a little short.” did he declare.
Highlighting the fact that the actress “laughed on set“, Pierre-Emmanuel Blard believes that Maïwenn “treated this case with disdain, without understanding its seriousness and gravity“. According to Edwy Plenel’s lawyer, the director evokes “this event as something unimportant, almost banal“.”No, it’s not trivial. It is to attack a director of publication of a press organ who does his job independently. He has never in his career as a journalist suffered such an attack. We know very well that this attack has a link with his functions as director of the publication of Mediapart“, he concluded.