He will not tread the red carpet. The Cannes Film Festival prohibited the French actor Théo Navarro-Mussy from presenting this Thursday Dominik Moll’s film “File 137”due to accusations of sexual violence, we learned Wednesday from the festival, confirming information from Telerama.
The film team, in which Théo Navarro-Mussy plays a supporting role, has to climb the steps of Cannes this Thursday. But the general delegate of the Thierry Frémaux festival decided, Even before opening Tuesdayin an unprecedented way and in accordance with the production of the film, to remove it, reported the cultural magazine on its website.
On the judicial level and according to Télérama, the actor, seen in particular in the series “Hippocrates”, was targeted by a complaint of three former companions for “rapes, physical and moral violence”, in the private sphere, “in 2018, 2019 and 2020”, At least four years before filming.
This complaint was undoubtedly classified in April 2025 for “insufficiently characterized offense” but “the three complainants indicated their intention to file an appeal by constituting civil party,” said Télérama.
“The case is non -suspensive”
Contacted by the magazine, the actor recalls that justice has, “at this stage, put out of the case”. “I have received no information that a procedure continued. This project of complaint with the constitution of civil party was not established judicially to my knowledge, “commented the lawyer for the actor, Me Pouzet-Gagliardi. AFP was not able to confirm these elements on Wednesday evening.
The general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, with whom the case was reported by the Association of Actors, justified his decision by the fact that “the procedure remains in progress”. “It is because there is recourse and therefore continuation of the investigation that the case is non -suspensive. When justice goes definitively, it becomes different, ”he explains in Télérama.
Thierry Frémaux clarified that in Cannes, the productions should now “ensure the organizers that the conditions of security, integrity and dignity of people were respected throughout the manufacturing process” of a film. “We must act on a case-by-case basis, especially when new elements arise,” he adds.
The festival also makes it known that it is awaiting additional elements concerning another personality of cinema being the subject of a report.
