Paris (France) (AFP) – Star actor Omar Sy will be tried on November 30 at the Paris judicial court, suspected of having attacked SNCF agents at Lyon station in Paris in May 2025, AFP learned on Monday from a source close to the case.
Published on: 09/11/2026 - 1:52 p.m.
Headliner of the series “Lupin”, Omar Sy is notably being prosecuted for “violence against a person responsible for public service missions followed by incapacity not exceeding eight days committed on May 22, 2025”. The SNCF confirmed at the time “an altercation and threatening remarks made by Mr. Sy against one of our flight attendants”.
The actor is also accused of "threat of crime or misdemeanor against persons or property against a person responsible for a public service mission" and "insulting a person responsible for a public service mission".
On May 22, 2025, the actor, about to make a journey between Paris and Avignon, "allegedly attacked the railway security agents who asked him to muzzle his dog", the newspaper La Provence revealed that day.
“Proceedings will be initiated,” a spokesperson for SNCF Voyageurs then told AFP.
According to La Provence, "an altercation would have started on the station platform around 7 a.m.", while the actor "was preparing to board a train towards the City of the Popes". “The security agents” allegedly asked the star “to muzzle her dog when the train leaves, as required by the SNCF”.
“After an initial scandal from Omar Sy at the start, notably death threats and insults uttered against the agents on the platform, the problems would have continued on board the train,” the newspaper further wrote.
Similar facts had already been reported in 2018 and 2011, always at the same station in Paris.
The SNCF had already reported in 2018 "somewhat heated exchanges" between Omar Sy and an SNCF agent during an incident, already, at the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
In 2011, the star, who burst onto the screen in the hit film "Intouchables", was briefly arrested after an altercation with SNCF security agents in Paris, still at the Gare de Lyon. His lawyer at the time denounced “acts of violence and abuse of authority”.
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