Gérard Depardieu arrested for harassment and sexual violence | EUROtoday

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The reckoning has arrived for Gérard Depardieu, essentially the most well-known French actor on this planet, identified for his exuberance and image of sexual abuse which prompted an actual revolt, a type of French #metoo: for him a cease to Paris. Two girls denounced Depardieu on this context of the quite a few sexual accusations regarding him. From right this moment, the actor should reply to the police for sexual violence and harassment on the units of two movies: in 2014 whereas filming The Magician and the Siamese by Jean-Pierre Mocky, and in 2021, on the set of Green Shutters by Jean Becker. The first to report it, a set designer, talks about occasions that occurred in September 2021.

Depardieu was participating within the filming of Becker's movie when, sooner or later, whereas sitting in a hall, he grabbed the girl along with his legs, pinning her between his thighs. The alleged sufferer claims he was then groped on her stomach, breasts and buttocks. The actor additionally allegedly advised her: “I'll plant my big umbrella in your sex.” The lady is a 53-year-old mom of a household, who spoke to the investigators of a “wolf trap” that she felt closing on her, with a “phenomenal force” on his half. So a lot in order that it might have taken the intervention of a 3rd individual to free her from Depardieu's legs that had been holding her tight.

The movie group pushed the actor to apologize and, in accordance with what was gathered from the testimonies, he did so by stating: “I apologize because I have to apologize…”. But later, he would then insult her all through the filming, calling her “p…”. Later, the girl defined that she has not been capable of work since then, and that she suffers from anxiousness assaults and post-traumatic stress. In a letter despatched to Le Figaro final October, Gérard Depardieu offered the “truth” about him, denying the accusations.

The second to file a grievance advised the regional newspaper Le Courrier de l'Ouest that, a couple of days earlier than the capturing of the quick movie The Magician and the Siamese of March 2014, all of the technical workers and actors went to Depardieu's home, within the central rue du Cherche-midi in Paris, to arrange for filming. On that event, an assistant who was 24 years previous on the time, claims to have suffered sexual harassment. Depardieu would have touched her decrease again, addressing her obscene phrases. At the start of filming, the actor crossed her once more and repeated the bodily harassment of her, then touched her in her personal components and uttered express sentences.

Finally, Gérard Depardieu has been below investigation since 2020 for rape and sexual violence in opposition to the actress Charlotte Arnould. The actress Hélène Darras had additionally sued Depardieu for sexual violence throughout the filming of a movie in 2007, however the crime was statute barred. In Spain, Depardieu is the topic of a grievance by the journalist and author Ruth Baza, who accuses him of getting raped her in 1995. “Never, ever,” Depardieu wrote within the letter to Le Figaro, “have I abused a woman.”