Coline Berry-Rojtman, on 11 February 1985. – Thomas SAMSON / AFP
“It was that or I die. »Coline Berry-Rojtman explains, in an interview with France Info broadcast on Monday, the reasons which ‘pushed to file a complaint for “rape and sexual assault” against her father, actor Richard Berry, nearly forty years after the facts.
“Reading Camille Kouchner’s book” , at the origin of the Duhamel affair and a free speech in France on incest, and “the reaction of my father to me: it was the alignment, the addition”, underlines the eldest daughter of the actor, heard last Thursday by the police of the brigade for the protection of minors. “I felt it physically, that is to say that it was that or I die, in fact”, she adds.
Facts that go back years 1980
“It was vital. Maybe, yes, it will hurt him. Even though I believe that I bring reparation in the family, and for future generations ”. Coline Berry-Rojtman, born of the union of Richard Berry and actress Catherine Hiegel, filed a complaint at the end of January for “rape and sexual assault on a minor of 15 years by ascendant “and” corruption of minor ”. The same day, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation to examine the veracity of the accusations against his father, which date back to 310 – 1984.
Richard Berry
denied “with all (his) strength and unambiguously these filthy accusations” and assured to have “never had any inappropriate or incestuous relations with Coline , nor with any of the children ”.