Accused of sexual, physical and psychological violence, Franck Gastambide reacts

The actor and director of the Kaïra, Taxi 5 and Validé is implicated by six women, three of whom he collaborated on filming. Franck Gastambide denies as a whole and says he is a victim of “slander”.

The actor, director, screenwriter and producer of successful series and films, Franck Gastambide (Valid,, Medelin,, The cage) East accused by six women of sexual, physical and psychological violence. Mediapart Also quotes seventeen witnesses supporting them. With the exception of the actress Marion SECLIN (I greet you slut: misogyny in digital time,, Daddy Cool), the other five women asked to testify anonymously on the violence they have suffered.

The old animal trainer from the shooting sets took his first steps in the cinema with the creation of the first web-series of Canal+, Kaïra Shopping (2009). As a director but also an actor, he was a dazzling success with KaïraThen Taxi 5 And Valid. Recently, he directed and played in the film Medelin released on Amazon Prime and in the series The cage on Netflix.

Three of the six women are former companions of Franck Gastambide, immediately said the investigation to the public on Friday, February 21, 2025. Three others are collaborators who denounce gestures and remarks who would have taken place during filming. While his old companions evoke the grip of man, the others speak of “power”Of the actor in an environment such as cinema, with major financial projects and resistance to movement #Metoo still deep.

The interested party immediately defended, via a long message on Instagram:

Marion Séclin, aged twenty years at the time of the facts, says that: “Without warning, and while you don’t know, he put his hand on my chair’s backrest and started rubbing his sex on my hand, sighing with pleasure. At the time, I did not react, I was as petrified“.

“” “You have the same look as a girl who sucks, except that you have it all day. ”He launches in the same day, at the time of the meal.

Franck Gastambide talks about ”a bad joke“Which he has”shame”.

These acts would have taken place on the set of the program The landing For Canal+ in 2013. Franck Gastambide talks about “A kind of euphoria where everyone made valves, perhaps in a time when we were less careful“. He adds that it was”maybe“An attempt”to flirt in a bad way“.

During the preview of the series Valid,, Made by Franck Gastambide, a second woman says that she would have kissed him and that the man would have slipped behind her and would have “him”rubbed the buttocks with its basin for several seconds“.”It deeply shocked me, especially because we were in a professional setting”, She delivers.

For the director, it is “fake”. “” “There are my producers, my girlfriend, all the lights are on me”, He justifies.

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Finally, always for the series Valid But this time at the time of filming the first season, another woman reports on displaced behavior. She says that the actor would have sent him a good number of messages while offering him to see herself in the evening.

“” “I was afraid to upset him by not accepting his advances. It was stressful, I was afraid of professional repercussions, given the hierarchical relationship that existed between us, she said. I couldn’t tell him cash that these evening texts were problematic. “

Franck Gastambide claims that the shooting was finished contrary to what the girl and one of the actors in the series advance.

Three former companions also denounced the physical and/or psychological violence that they would have suffered between 2010 and 2021, each for several years.

Shortly after putting this famous Mediapart investigation online, the actor spoke on his social networks. He denounces an article “triggered by the lies and malice of people, who, driven by frustration, harass me, threaten me, and seek to harm me for several years”. “” “They tried to question anyone who would have something negative to say about me, while letting a rumor spread. For my part, I know who is bad so I prepared myself. ” he continues.

He says he went to Mediapart himself, with a file and evidence for “Explain the true reality of the facts”. The 46 -year -old repeats having given them evidence “threats, odious and repeated insults against my mother, my family and myself” And “Testimonials from pockets, collaborators and ex-partner telling the grip and the pressures I have undergone. ” He admits to recognize “Some awkwardness“But not”facts of which I have no memory”.

He concludes: “These journalists have chosen to arrange with certain realities because the desire to release an article on a personality like me was far too strong. “

Ruggia, Depardieu, Bedos, Jacquot, Doillon: the wave #Metoo has not finished overwhelming French cinema. Affairs of sexual violence against men and women of cinema are revealed in broad daylight thanks to a liberating word embodied by figures like Judith Godrèche, Adèle Haenel or Juliette Binoche. All these facts of violence question the 7th art industry and its functioning through power and grip, in particular. At the same time, the symbolism of the artist is still very protected and struggles to crack.

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