French directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon have been taken into police custody for questioning on accusations of sexual assault made against them by actress and director Judith Godrèche.
French media reported that both men were being questioned by the Paris branch of France’s Brigade for the Protection of Minors.
Godrèche unleashed a fresh MeToo wave in France this year after she decided to speak out about her own experiences of sexual abuse within the French cinema world as a teenager.
She filed official complaints against Jacquot and Doillon in February. The actress and director was in a relationship with Jacquot in the late 1980s, which she says began when she was only 14 years old and he was 40.
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