Dominique Boutonnat to step down from French industry champion CNC, and will serve sentence at home
Dominique Boutonnat, the head of France’s powerful National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), was on Friday given a three-year prison sentence, including two years suspended, after being convicted of sexually assaulting his godson in 2020.
In a statement released immediately after the ruling, Boutonnat announced he would step down as head of the CNC, a government agency whose role includes overseeing measures to curb sexual violence in the industry.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/28/dominique-boutonnat-head-of-france-cinema-agency-cnc-sentenced-sexual-assault
Author : AFP
Publish date : 2024-06-28 14:02:10
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