Currently starring in the film Les Amandiers by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and while the committee of the Académie des Césars has selected the actor in the list of 32 revelations of the year 2023, Sofiane Bennacer has been indicted for rape and domestic violence according to Le Parisien.
While the 25-year-old young man is starting a very successful career with a role in the theater and then in the series The trainee and finally in the movie This music plays for no one by Samuel Benchetrit, he was spotted by director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. This includes him in the casting of his latest film The Almond Trees which earned him a selection by the Committee of the Academy of Caesars in the list of 32 new faces of French cinema. Originally from Marseille, the appointment of the young man did not go smoothly since some casting directors were not in favor of it because of the suspicions of sexual assault that hovered over him.
Suspicions which turn out to be taken very seriously since Sofiane Bennacer has just been indicted for rape and domestic violence and placed under judicial supervision by a judge in Mulhouse. It is in the columns of Parisian that we discover that the case began with the complaint of rape by one of his former companions when he was still studying at the La Filature theater school in Mulhouse and then at the National Theater in Strasbourg in 2019. This information was confirmed by the public prosecutor of Mulhouse Edwige Roux-Morizot.
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Four women involved in the case
According to Parisian, the young woman, a certain Juliette B., filed a complaint in 2021, which led to a preliminary investigation in September of the same year. The young woman would have revealed to be in a “relationship under control and harmful with a charismatic young man with whom she was madly in love, but who, one night, would have forced her to have an unwanted sexual relationship”. It was during the investigation that three other young women were heard by the Strasbourg gendarmes, two denouncing acts of rape and one of physical violence.
From now on under the blow of justice, Sofiane Bennacer has the total prohibition to approach the plaintiffs or witnesses of the file, it is also in the impossibility of going to the cities of Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Paris. A delicate situation when you know that he is currently in full promotion of his new feature film The Almond Trees. The young man has since denied the whole situation and also filed a complaint for defamation against the young women. The accused remains presumed innocent for the moment until the case has been judged by justice.