Benoît Magimel arrested by police after a hit and run – Le Figaro

The actor, placed in police custody since Friday night after reversing a 62 year old woman in the sixteenth arrondissement, was referred late Sunday afternoon at the High Court of paris to unintentional injuries and drug use.

Benoît Magimel, life is not a bed of roses! The actor, recently césarisé for her role in The head-up , was taken into custody on Friday March 11 to 18 hours, the police sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, after overthrowing a sexagenarian and referred Sunday late afternoon high court of Paris, where he spent the night before knowing the consequences of the procedure. He is accused of unintentional injuries and drug use.

“involuntary injuries” and “hit and run”

The actor of 41 years was driving a rental car on Friday when he overturned a 62 year old woman on the boulevard Exelmans, while conducting a reverse. He got out of the car to check on the health status of the victim, slightly injured leg, then left. Witnesses told police his identity, which visited the actor. In his absence, officials filed a summons and the actor has himself visited the police station, said a source close to the investigation. Benoît Magimel was placed Friday evening custody for “involuntary injury, driving despite invalidation of driving license by loss of points, not helping a person in danger and drug use,” said a judicial source. The victim, injured leg, was hospitalized but his life is not in danger.

It has also tested positive for cocaine, on Sunday confirmed a police source. However, no illegal substance was found in his home after a search.

Child prodigy film

In the film world, we already whispering for some time that Benoît Magimel through a difficult phase in engagement with a pretty serious addiction problem. What he seemed to recognize the hint on stage at the Theatre du Chatelet when he received his award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance of social educator in The High Head. “Thank Emmanuelle Bercot of trusting me when I probably needed it most. Thank you to all the team of the film, for their kindness, their eyes that accompanies us when turning. It is important. Thank you to my family, I think a lot of them this evening at my mother for her courage, my two daughters. It is great happiness for me to receive this award, “said Was ill, visibly moved.

A child prodigy of the cinema with a first appearance in 13 years in the cult film L a Life is a bed of roses in which he played ” Momo “Currant, Benoît Magimel never left the screen. He turned in a fifty films. This is a blow to the actor who will star in next May of the first French series produced by Netflix, Marseille . The US firm she will reconsider the scenario of this fiction in which the actor plays a campaigning politician to conquer the town of Marseille against his former mentor, Gerard Depardieu. A political thriller in drug trafficking bottom …