French actor Richard Berry One of her daughters, Coline, has been accused of being raped as a child, while denying the “dirty accusation” and claiming that he never had an incestuous relationship with her or any of his other children.
According to several French media, the complaint of rape, sexual assault and corruption of minors by Coline Hiegel Berry, who is now 45 years old, against the actor and against his former stepmother, the American singer Jeane Manson, was formalized in January, and last week the investigation was commissioned to the Paris Police Juvenile Brigade.
Berry, 70, has been a major figure on the French screen and stage for more than four decades, having starred in nearly 80 films such as Bertrand Tavernier’s “L’Appat” or “Une jour de merde”. by Miguel Courtois).
He has also directed six films and is also a prolific performer on television and on stage (especially in the classic Comédie-Française).
Magazine Point He emphasized that the applicant, who had received the support of her mother, actress Catherine Hiegel, had to give a statement in the coming days for some events which might be time-barred.
In a long message posted on social media on Tuesday, Berry denies “with all his force and without ambiguity these dirty accusations”, which “although repeated a hundred times in the press or otherwise, are nothing but a lie” .
In his message, he explains that it was seven years ago, when he announced to his family that he would have a child at a time when Coline was pregnant, they “reacted with extreme violence” and sent him an e-mail. mail to his wife later in which he “alluded” to the fact that he had been abused.
To try to prove the inconsistency of the allegations, she points out that her daughter’s story “has evolved over time” and that although she tried to talk to her and told the case to friends, psychiatrists and family members, she failed to understand. what’s wrong.
This complaint comes in a context in which the testimony of an alleged incest committed by the famous political scientist Olivier Duhamel, revealed by a book published by his stepdaughter, Camille Kouchner, served in France for many alleged victims to talk about it.
Camille Kouchner, the daughter of former French minister Bernard Kouchner, tells in the “Great Family” how Duhamel abused his twin brother Antoine as a teenager, a matter that is the subject of a judicial investigation.
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