Published on April 24, 2024 at 1:02 p.m.
The comedians Djimo and Lenny M’Bunga, pillars of the comedy club Paname Art Café, were placed under the status of assisted witness, one for “rape committed in a meeting”, the other for “complicity in rape committed in a meeting” , reveals “Mediapart”.
The #MeTooStandUp is growing a little more. A judicial investigation for rape targeting comedians Djimo and Lenny M’Bunga was opened in early 2024, “Mediapart” revealed on Friday April 19.
The procedure follows a complaint filed in March 2023 by actress Élise Vigné. She says that the events took place in the summer of 2015, while she was working as a manager at the Paname Art Café, after an evening at her house. According to the complaint consulted by “Mediapart”, Djimo joined the actress in her room after she had “consensual” sex with Lenny M’Bunga. Élise Vigné is then falling asleep.
“I tell him I don’t want to”
“Someone comes into the room, I think it’s Lenny. He penetrates me. I tell him I don’t want to, that I’m tired. Suddenly, the person gets up and runs away,” she describes. to the “Parisian”.
The actress says she informed Karim Kachour, at the origin of the Paname Art Café, and Kader Aoun, its artistic director, at the time, without the artists being deprogrammed. “As these are facts that are completely external to Panama, it was not up to me to take any action,” explains Karim Kachour to the investigative media.
“I am accused of having filed a complaint eight years later. But in 2015, the world was not ready,” continues Élise Vigné to “Parisien”. Contacted by “Mediapart”, the lawyers of the two comedians each “firmly” contest the facts.