police custody lifted for Gérard Depardieu, who shall be tried in October | EUROtoday

Published on : 04/29/2024 – 12:11Modified : 04/29/2024 – 8:49 p.m.

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Gérard Depardieu, focused by complaints from two girls, was summoned on Monday April 29 by the Parisian judicial police (third DPJ) to be interviewed, a police supply informed AFP, confirming data from BFMTV. He was positioned in police custody earlier than it was lifted on the finish of the day, his lawyer introduced to the press.

“The police custody is over. He is no longer held in the police station,” one in every of his legal professionals, Me Christian Saint-Palais, informed journalists shortly earlier than 6:30 p.m., deploring the leaks to the press. The actor disputes the accusations, his counsel mentioned.

Gérard Depardieu shall be judged in October 2024, the Paris prosecutor's workplace mentioned early Monday night.

“At the tip of his police custody on the third judicial police district, Gérard Depardieu was given a summons to seem earlier than the legal courtroom (…) for sexual assaults more likely to have been dedicated in September 2021 to the unfairness of two victims, on the set of the movie 'The Green Shutters'”, specified the prosecution.

“Obscene remarks”

A decorator, who worked on the team of the film “Les Volets Verts” directed by Jean Becker, accuses him of having sexually assaulted her in 2021. When asked, her lawyer, Me Carine Durrieu-Diebolt, did not wish to comment this summons.

This woman filed a complaint in February 2024 for sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexist insults. The facts date back to September 2021 and allegedly took place in a private hotel in Paris.

According to his account to Mediapart, the actor would have made numerous gravelly remarks during filming, then later would have “grabbed her brutally” and would have “kneaded her waist, her abdomen, going as much as her breasts” .

He also made “obscene remarks” to her such as “come touch my big parasol, I’m going to shove it in your pussy,” she told the news site.

During this filming, “from morning to night, we had the best to our salacious feedback”, testified the actress Anouk Grinberg, in an interview with AFP. “When film producers hire Depardieu on a film, they know they are hiring an aggressor,” she accused.

The different criticism is introduced by a former movie assistant who accuses Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault in 2014.

According to Le Courrier de l'Ouest, this girl, aged 24 on the time of the occasions and who additionally needs to stay nameless, filed a criticism on January 9, denouncing “obscene comments” made by Gérard Depardieu throughout conferences in his personal mansion in Paris.

“His hands everywhere”

She additionally accuses him of getting sexually assaulted her and of getting made sexual propositions to her in the course of the filming in Maine-et-Loire of the movie “The Magician and the Siamese” by Jean-Pierre Mocky in March 2014.

The complainant spoke to the regional newspaper about “her hands all over (her) body” and the actor's “indecent words” on the set.

The French cinema large has additionally been indicted since 2020 for rape and sexual assault on a younger actress, Charlotte Arnould.

The actress Hélène Darras had additionally filed a criticism in opposition to him for sexual assault throughout filming in 2007, nevertheless it was closed by the Paris prosecutor's workplace for prescription.

In Spain, Gérard Depardieu can be the goal of a criticism from journalist and author Ruth Baza, who accuses him of getting raped her in 1995.

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In complete, round twenty girls testified within the press or in courtroom.

“Never, ever have I abused a woman,” the 75-year-old actor mentioned in an open letter printed in October 2023 in Le Figaro, referring to Charlotte Arnould’s accusations.

These investigations come at a time when the world of cinema is experiencing an explosion, shaken by a succession of accusations of sexual violence, from actresses but additionally from actors.

See additionallyFrench cinema: nonetheless an excessive amount of silence?

After Gérard Depardieu, filmmakers Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon are the goal of an investigation for rape of a minor, after a criticism filed by actress Judith Godrèche.

The latter has grow to be one of many main figures within the struggle in opposition to sexual violence within the seventh artwork in France, following within the wake of actresses Adèle Haenel and Charlotte Arnould.

With AFP