Six women accuse the actor and director of sexual, physical and psychological violence in a mediapart investigation. Franck Gastambide denied the accusations.
Sexual, physical, psychological violence … This is what six women blame Franck Gastambide. In a survey published this Friday, February 21 by Mediapartthe actor, director and screenwriter (Taxi 5,, Valid,, Medellin, the cage…) is implicated by actress Marion Séclin and five other women who claimed anonymity. However, no complaint has been filed to date. In total, the investigation media questioned 17 other people around the two parties.
Franck Gastambide denies the accusations with the Mediapart which he was the subject and ensures that he is “victim” of a slander campaign of a former companion whom he accuses of violence and threats. On the social network X this Friday afternoon, he reiterates and denounces “lies and the malice of people who, pushed by jealousy and frustration, harass me, threaten me and seek to harm me for several years”.
Accusations of old companions
Three accusers, also actresses, are former companions of Franck Gastambide, from 2010 to 2021. They describe cases of psychological and physical violence in the intimate sphere. The first of the accusers, who was in a relationship for six years with Franck Gastambide before breaking in 2020, denounces a “manipulator”. Conversely, the actor and director describes an ex “jealous” and says that it was he who was “under control”. Both describe arguments that degenerate into the columns of Médiapart. She also says she was “harassed” by Gastambide after the end of their relationship, which he denies.
A second partner, who attended the actor in 2010, describes “years of harassment, intimidation and slander intended to ruin my career” as well as episodes of “violence”. In return, Franck Gastambide also accuses him of harassment and slander, and would have constituted a file against her which would contain insults and death threats which she would have uttered against him, without having yet filed a complaint. The third recorded their relationship in its autobiography, denouncing a grip system that would have plunged it into depression.
Accusations of former collaborators
Three of the other women who testified to Médiapart claim to have been victims on or on the sidelines of filming platforms. Among them, we find Marion Séclin (Clem), who worked with Franck Gastambide on the set of the program Canal++ The landing in 2013. She criticized him for having “started to rub her sex on [sa] Main “in his lodge, or to have” embraced it by force in the neck “. Gastambide assures” not to remember “for what Marion Séclin reproaches him.
Another woman accuses Franck Gastambide of having “rubbed her buttocks with her basin for several seconds” during the preview of the series Validearly 2020. The actor assures that this story is “false”. A third, which also worked on the creation of the Canal+series, says that it has been attempted by SMS for several weeks.