Depardieu case: Paris prosecutors have requested a trial for rape

“On August 14, 2024, he requested dismissal based on the final indictment. Gerard Depardieu On August 7 and 13, 2018, Charlotte Arnold will be tried before the Departmental Criminal Court for digital intrusion and sexual assault.“, – the Paris prosecutor’s office noted in a press release, which was reported by AFP and many media outlets. Therefore, the trial will soon see the light of day.

For information, the actor has already been accused of rape and sexual assault on actress Charlotte Arnold since December 2020.

In April last year, he was also detained for questioning in relation to allegations made by three women.

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Among them the decorator of Volets vertes, a film by Jean Becker, released in August 2022, who filed a complaint last February for sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexist outrage. The facts, which date back to 2021, during filming, and for which the actor will be tried in a criminal court in October.

“It’s a relief”responded to AFP, the plaintiff’s lawyer, who is also representing the woman, who denounces the actions committed in 2014, but which is threatened by the statute of limitations. “Of course, there are other victims. At this point, approximately twenty-five women have come forward with allegations that range from contempt to sexist violence, including harassment or sexual assault. It’s time for ‘her to be tried.’

“When movie producers hire Depardieu for a movie, they know they’re hiring an aggressor.”

revealed in the article media partyReporting another complaint made by an assistant director, the facts were confirmed by Anouk Greenberg, one of his partners in Les Volets vertes: “When movie producers hire Depardieu for a movie, they know they’re hiring an aggressor.”He told AFP afterwards.

condemns A “Lynch” and posing as a victim “Media Court”Gerard Depardieu denied the allegations in an open letter Le Figaro : “I can no longer agree with what I hear, what I read about myself for several months”He wrote then. “I thought I didn’t care, but no, not really. It’s all about me. Even worse, it’s stopping me.”