Director Christophe Ruggia sentenced to ankle bondage | EUROtoday

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The French director Christophe Ruggia was convicted of two -year sporting a ankle faucet on Monday and a complete of 35,000 euros in ache and struggling. A court docket in Paris discovered the sixty -year -old Ruggia responsible of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel as a minor. Haenel had performed a number one function in Ruggia’s movie “Les Diables” when the twelve -year -old lady at the moment performed a number one function. The movie confirmed a number of intercourse scenes between a boy and Haenel, who later defined that he felt “very uncomfortable”. She had additionally accused Ruggia of getting sexually molested and repeatedly touched in his home between 2001 and 2004 at weekly conferences.

Christophe Ruggia had all the time denied the allegations and known as a “revenge action” as a result of he had not supplied any additional roles after “Les Diables”. His lawyer introduced that he would attraction towards the judgment. Adèle Haenel first made her allegations public within the on-line newspaper “Médapart” in 2019 and thus bought the primary Metoo case of French cinema rolling.

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