Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting two women

Gérard Depardieu has been recovered blameworthy of sexually assaulting 2 women during a movie sprout successful 2021.

Depardieu, France’s biggest movie star, who has made much than 200 films and TV series, is the highest-profile figure successful the French movie manufacture to beryllium convicted of intersexual battle since the #MeToo movement.

The 76-year-old, who was not successful tribunal for the verdict, was convicted of sexually assaulting a 54-year-old acceptable dresser and a 34-year-old adjunct manager during the shooting of the diagnostic movie Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) successful Paris successful September 2021.

The tribunal heard that Depardieu trapped the set decorator, identified lone arsenic Amélie, betwixt his legs connected the movie acceptable and grabbed her buttocks, pubis and chest. She said helium trapped her with force, utilized obscene connection and had to beryllium pulled disconnected her.

Depardieu targeted Amélie connected acceptable erstwhile she was making telephone calls to way down parasols for the film. He allegedly said: “Come and interaction my large parasol. I’ll instrumentality it successful your pussy.”

Amélie told the tribunal that helium past grabbed her hips, pulled her towards him and trapped her betwixt his thighs with large force, and grabbed her body, including her pubis, waist and chest.

“That’s wherever I understood the spot helium had, helium held maine very, precise hard,” she said. “I retrieve his eyes, I saw this large face, reddish eyes, precise angry, precise agitated. And helium was saying: ‘Come interaction my large parasol,’ with a brainsick look. I’ve ne'er seen thing similar that.”

She said: “That fearfulness that I felt – what stands retired for maine is not his intersexual tendency but his savagery. It was the information that helium knew I was acrophobic – I saw his eyes airy up with a benignant of pleasance successful making idiosyncratic afraid. I retrieve that savagery. He truly terrified me, and that amused him.”

Depardieu was besides convicted of sexually assaulting an assistant director connected the aforesaid film, touching her breasts oregon buttocks connected 3 abstracted occasions. The woman, who was not named successful the media, was tasked with accompanying Depardieu from his dressing country connected to the acceptable during the filming. She said the assaults near her “petrified”.

The adjunct manager told the tribunal that a archetypal intersexual battle happened during a nighttime sprout successful Paris, erstwhile she recovered herself unsocial with Depardieu astatine the extremity of a abbreviated roadworthy wherever his dressing country was located arsenic they walked towards an outdoor set.

She said the 2nd battle happened astatine a aboriginal day connected a acceptable wrong a Paris apartment, wherever Depardieu blocked her against a doorway and enactment his 2 hands connected her breasts. She told the court: “I said no. I was scared.”

She said that connected a 3rd juncture Depardieu enactment his manus connected her buttocks and she again said: “No.”

The adjunct manager told the tribunal that Depardieu “talked astir enactment each time connected set, perpetually talking of ‘pussy’ to everyone”.

Depardieu denied intersexual assault. He told the proceedings that the media had utilized allegations against him to harm his reputation. He attacked the #MeToo movement arsenic good arsenic women who had held protestation placards extracurricular a performance circuit helium was connected astatine the clip of the allegations. “This question is going to go a terror,” helium said.

Depardieu’s proceedings was seen arsenic a turning constituent for the French cinema industry, which has been accused of being dilatory – adjacent resistant – to taking women’s claims of maltreatment seriously.

A damning parliamentary report by French politicians concluded past period that intersexual unit and intersexual harassment remained “endemic” successful France’s amusement manufacture and that women and children were inactive being routinely preyed on.

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