Gérard Depardieu To Stand Trial In October For Alleged Sexual Assault Following Police Audition
UPDATED with trial and date distinguished points: French actor Gérard Depardieu will stand trial in October on charges of sexual assault allegedly dedicated against two females on the diagram of the movie The Green Shutters in 2021, the Paris Public Prosecutor stated on Monday.
The announcement came after Depardieu used to be taken into police custody on Monday morning for questioning on sexual assault accusations.
“On the slay of his police custody at the 3rd judicial police district, Gérard Depardieu used to be given a summons to appear sooner than the prison court… for sexual assaults prone to had been dedicated in September 2021 against two victims, on the diagram of the movie The Green Shutters,” the prosecutor’s place of job stated in a impart.
Native media reports stated that the actor had been known as in for questioning on accusations related to events on the sets of Jean-Pierre Mocky’s Le Magicien et les Siamois in 2014, and Jean Becker’s The Green Shutters (Volets Verts) in 2021.
The Paris Public Prosecutor stated October’s trial may per chance presumably be in relation to 2 separate accusations related to the shoot of The Green Shutters. There used to be no point out of allegations related to the 2014 movie shoot.
Depardieu’s lawyer Christian Saint-Palais addresses press (AFP through Getty Photos)
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Earlier within the night, Depardieu’s lawyer Christian Saint-Palais’ confirmed his consumer had spent the day at the police location, arriving there underneath his possess steam following a summons.
He stated the questioning used to be a routine section of the judicial project and that Depardieu disputed the allegations.
“When a person is implicated, inevitably, there comes a time after they maintain got to impart themselves. And so at the present time used to be one among those days the build he needed to impart the accusations made against him and which he disputes,” he instructed press gathered open air the police location.
He did not order whether or no longer Depardieu may per chance presumably be returning for additional questioning.
Depardieu already faces an legitimate complaint of two acts of rape courting again to 2018 by actress Charlotte Arnould, which is for the time being making its device via the courts.
The actor vehemently denied the rape allegations and mounting sexual assault accusations against him in an open letter revealed in Le Figaro newspaper final October, suggesting his acts had been misinterpreted.
The letter came within the wake of rising numbers of accusations against him.
In April 2023, 13 females accused the actor of sexually deplorable habits in an in-depth document revealed by French investigative news internet convey material Médiapart.
Two months after the open letter, Depardieu came underneath additional public scrutiny in France following the printed on December 7 of a bombshell model of investigative order Complément d’Enquête, which probed these historic accusations as effectively as loads of acts of deplorable habits.
Deadline has contacted Depardieu’s lawyer Beatrice Geissmann Achille for touch upon the accusations against the actor and his detention but has but to listen to again.
Depardieu’s case has divided the French cinema world with 50 French leisure personalities posting an open letter in improve of the actor in December, announcing they were against the “lynching” and cancelling of the actor.
French President Emmanuel Macron also spoke up in defense of Depardieu, announcing he used to be a large admirer of the actor and suggesting he used to be subject to a witch hunt.
The open letter and Macron’s comments were met with a counter open letter signed by 600 French art and leisure world figures, which stated they were a slap within the face for all victims of sexual violence.
