France’s highest appeals court has rejected a request to re-examine a rape complaint against director Luc Besson, ending one of the most high-profile cases related to the #MeToo movement against sexual violence, The Guardian reports, taken from News.ro.

Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Rooy accused “The Fifth Element” and “Leon” director Luc Besson of raping her during their two-year relationship and filed a complaint against him in May 2018.

In February 2019, the prosecutor’s office closed the case due to lack of evidence. An appeals court dismissed the case last May after Van Rooy filed new charges.

In a ruling seen by the AFP news agency, France’s Court of Cassation, the court of final appeal in criminal cases, said there was “no reason to justify the continuation of the appeal” against previous rulings.

“The Court of Cassation has decided not to grant my appeal, which means that the French judiciary is once again refusing to examine the evidence in this case,” Van Rooy wrote on Twitter.

“I will continue these steps and submit a request to the European Court of Human Rights,” she said.

Besson’s lawyer said the decision “puts an end to all the proceedings over the past five years that found the director innocent.”

Besson admitted that he had a relationship with Van Rooy, who played minor roles in his films “Taxi 5” and “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.”

She filed the first rape complaint in May 2018, hours after meeting Besson, before filing another complaint two months later alleging other alleged rape and sexual assault.

At least three other women have accused Luc Besson of sexual harassment, allegations he also denies.