The 74-year-old French actor is the target of a new complaint for sexual assault. Hélène Darras accuses him of having put “a very strong hand on [s]’s butts” during the filming of the film Disco.
After the public accusations, the complaint. A new actress has filed a complaint for sexual assault against Gérald Depardieu, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced this Wednesday, December 6, confirming information from France 2.
While a “Complement of investigation” magazine will be devoted to Gérard Depardieu on Thursday, Hélène Darras once again accused the actor of having sexually assaulted her during the filming of the film Disco by Fabien Onteniente. His complaint is “currently being analyzed”, according to the prosecution.
“Everyone applauds him”
Last May, two actresses, including Hélène Darras, accused the giant of French cinema, in reaction to the testimony of Charlotte Arnould who accused him of rape.
“At one point, I had to replace a silhouette, a small role that doesn’t speak, and I was chosen. We’re in a nightclub, I’m replacing a candidate in a dance competition and I find myself in rating Gérard Depardieuwhose character runs the nightclub”, Hélène Darras testified on BFMTV.
“Between each take, he grabs me by the waist, he touches me,” she said.
While she was wearing a “very very tight and very very short” dress, the actor allegedly put “one hand very pressed on [s]”And in my ear he asks me to come up to his dressing room”, to which she says she replied no.
The scene took place “between takes with the camera and the technicians”, but according to the actress “everyone sees it and no one says anything”.
“He’s drunk, everyone applauds him, he’s the king on the set. We don’t actually say anything, we don’t think about saying something,” she continued on BFMTV.
Indicted since 2021
Gérard Depardieu has been indicted since 2021 for suspicion of rape and sexual assault on actress Charlotte Arnould in 2018.
In April 2023, thirteen women accused the 74-year-old actor of sexual violence, who “formally denies all accusations likely to fall under criminal law.”
These women, cited by Mediapart“claim to have experienced a hand in their panties, on their crotch, on their buttocks or on their chest; obscene sexual remarks; sometimes insistent grunts”.
“Never, ever have I abused a woman. Hurting a woman would be like kicking my own mother in the stomach,” Gérard Depardieu said in an open letter published in early October. on the website of Figaro.