French producer Dominique Boutonnat has been arrested …

Dominique boutonnat, French producer and current president of the Center National du Film Français (CNC), He was stopped this wednesday after being accused by his godson of sexual assault and attempted rape.

As reported by BFM TV, the 22 years old stated that the events took place during the European summer of last year and filed the complaint in October. The investigation of the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, at the gates of Paris, is in the hands of the judicial police.

Boutonnat, For its part, denied the accusation in statements he made to the same television station.

The 51-year-old producer assumed the presidency of the CNC in July 2019 and, during his career, has promoted the development of around 250 film and audiovisual projects in the country, among which “Intouchables”, directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano in 2011; “Le Passé” (2013), by Iranian Asghar Farhadi; or “L’Arnacoeur” (2010), by Pascal Chaumeil, with Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris.

The complaint against Boutonnat adds to a long list of accusations that have been made public in recent weeks in France. This is the case of the French political scientist Olivier Duhamel, denounced for abuse on the part of his daughter-in-law, Camille Kouchner.

Kouchner, who now works as a lawyer, produced a book in which he accuses Duhamel of abusing his twin brother, Antoine, when he was 14.

Duhamel has resigned from the presidency of the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP) and all the many institutions of which he was a part.

The case also led to the resignation of Frédéric Mion, director of the French Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), for failing to take action against Duhamel, who works as a teacher at the university, while ‘he was aware of the abuse complaints that weighed on the political scientist.