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French actor Omar Sy, star of "Lupin" and "The Intouchables," will stand trial on November 30 in a Paris court on charges of assaulting several employees of the public railway company SNCF in May 2025. AFP reports, citing a source close to the case, that Sy is on trial for "violence against a person entrusted with public service missions resulting in illness for no more than eight days, committed on May 22, 2025."
At the time, SNCF confirmed “an altercation and threats made by Sy towards one of our on-board agents”.
The actor is also charged with “threatening to commit a crime or misdemeanor against persons or property against a person performing a public service mission” and “insulting a person performing a public service mission.”
On May 22, 2025, the actor, who was about to leave Paris for Avignon, allegedly attacked some railway security officers who had asked him to muzzle his dog, as revealed at the time by the newspaper La Provence.
This is not the first time that the actor has been involved in similar incidents, which had already been reported in 2018 and 2011, both at the same Paris train station.
In 2018, SNCF reported "rather heated exchanges" between Omar Sy and a railway employee at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. In 2011, the actor, at the height of his success with the film "The Intouchables," was briefly detained after an altercation with SNCF security officers in Paris, again at the Gare de Lyon. His lawyer at the time alleged "acts of violence and abuse of authority" against Sy.
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