Lena Lutaud
INVESTIGATION – Ary Abittan was charged with rape in October 2021 and upgraded to witness support for eight months. Nevertheless, he returns to the stage for a one-man show focused on his legal problems.
To Clermont Ferrand
At the foot of the Puy-de-Dôme, Ary Abittan waves his cell phone to photograph the facade of the Comédie des Volcans. Here, in an industrial area twenty minutes from Clermont-Ferrand, he is preparing to return to the stage for the first time in 2024. Among MeToo cases, his case symbolizes the difficulty for the judiciary in determining privacy consent.
Ary Abittan was charged in Paris on November 2, 2021, after filing a complaint of rape against a 21-year-old woman a few hours earlier. At the end of the investigation last July, the actor was placed in the status of assisted witness, given the information collected by investigators regarding the events of the evening of October 30, 2021.
The details abound because the complainant took immediate action. In the actor’s Paris apartment, while he was in another room, she explained her plight in writing to her friends in their WhatsApp group immediately after the crime. That night she filed a police report. Before being escorted to the criminal police. Hearing this, she protested and screamed in pain as Ary Abittan imposed non-consensual sodomy on her. She adds that he allegedly slapped and strangled her. Then she would have fallen silent in shock. The comedian tells him that he hasn’t heard anything, has never been rejected and is sorry that his partner didn’t speak up. The significant physical injuries…
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