Picture caption, Benoît Jacquot (picutred) and Jacques Doillon have denied the allegations in opposition to themArticle informationAuthor, Ruth ComerfordRole, BBC News1 hour agoLeading French filmmakers Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon have been taken into police custody for questioning over accusations of historic sexual abuse, French media is reporting.Actor Judith Godrèche accused Benoît Jacquot of raping her as a toddler and Jacques Doillon of sexually assaulting her, additionally as a toddler.The 2 males arrived on the Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police (DRPJ) in Paris on Monday morning, the AFP information company stories.The pair have denied the allegations and their legal professionals have denounced their detainment.Jacques Doillon’s lawyer, Marie Dose, mentioned no authorized standards may justify his being detained for questioning “36 years” after the alleged incident.Beneath French legislation, a person could be held in police custody for as much as 48 hours. Earlier this yr, Ms Godrèche, 51, filed a grievance in opposition to Benoît Jacquot, 77, accusing him of rape in 1986, when she was 14. She claimed that he had an unhealthy “maintain” over her throughout a relationship that lasted into the Nineties.She additionally accused Jacques Doillon of sexual assault whereas on set when she acted in one in all his movies.The accusations prompted a joint investigation in February.Reacting to the custody measure in a publish on Instagram, she posted an image of herself as an adolescent subsequent to Benoît Jacquot, with the caption: “I am crying… From all this… I do not know if I’ve the power however I’ll have it. I’ll have it… For her.”Within the early a part of her profession, Judith Godrèche was recognized for her roles in two movies made by Benoît Jacquot, The Beggars (1987) and The Disenchanted (1990).He has been directing because the mid-Seventies along with his drama Farewell, My Queen opening the 2012 Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition.Ms Godréche starred in Jacques Dillion’s 1989 movie, The 15 Yr Previous Lady, which was entered into the Moscow Worldwide Movie Competition. His more moderen movies embody Rodin and You, Me and Us.She has gone on to make quite a few different movies together with The In a single day, The Spanish Residence and The Man within the Iron Masks.Picture caption, Judith Godreche protested violence in opposition to ladies in the course of the Cannes Movie Competition this yr