He will have to appear before a criminal court and not before an assize court, where the penalties incurred are heavier, because the qualification of “attempted rape” has not been retained.
Le Monde with AFP
He had been renewed, at the end of July, at the head of the National Center for Cinema and the Animated Image (CNC). Dominique Boutonnat will be tried before a criminal court for sexual assault in 2020 on his godson, said the Nanterre prosecutor’s office at the France-Presse agency Thursday, September 29, confirming information from France info.
Dominique Boutonnat, now 52 years old, will have to appear before a criminal court and not before an assize court, where the penalties incurred are heavier, because the qualification of “attempted rape” does not have been retained. Contacted, his lawyer was not reachable immediately.
At the end of April, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office requested the referral to the CCI Criminal Court for CNC for sexual assault on his godson. In October 2020, a complaint was filed by this 23 -year -old young man for acts dating from August 2020, during holidays in Greece. 2> a disputed appointment
Dominique Boutonnat “firmly disputes all the facts”, according to his lawyer. No case law obliges the withdrawal or the resignation of an official under investigation. It is, for ministers, use since 1992, the application of which is carried out with variable geometry.
Former fellow student of Edouard Philippe to Sciences Po Paris and support of Emmanuel Macron, Dominique Boutengnat, 51, was appointed president of the CNC, on July 24, 2019, after a career within AXA, then in the cinema financing. He contributed to the production of 250 works, including Polisse (2011), by Maïwenn, Intouchables (2011), by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, or Le Chant du Loup (2019), by Antonin Baudry. His appointment at the head of the CNC had been criticized, due to the publication of a report on private financing in cinema.