After a day of hearings on Monday, the actor left the police station in the early evening, his lawyer said. The Paris prosecutor’s office then announced that a criminal trial would take place in October.
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Gérard Depardieu was placed in police custody to be heard in cases relating to sexual assault, France Télévisions learned from a police source on Monday April 29, confirming information from BFMTV. The actor, who arrived around 8 a.m., was heard in the premises of the third district of the Parisian judicial police for two cases of sexual assault.
His lawyer, Christian Saint-Palais, announced early in the evening, as he left the premises, that his client was not “no more at the police station”. “That’s it for today’s auditions,” did he declare. In the process, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced that the actor had “seen given a summons” for a criminal trial. “He will be tried in October 2024 for sexual assaults likely to have been committed in September 2021 to the detriment of two victims on the set of the film Green Shutters“according to the prosecution.
Women accuse Gérard Depardieu of touching on two film sets: The Magician and the Siamese (2014) And Green Shutters (2021). Regarding the filming of Green shutters, a 53-year-old decorator accuses the actor in particular. According to her, Gérard Depardieu made many serious comments during the filming of the film, “caught brutally”he has “kneaded the waist, the stomach, going up to her breasts”before being interrupted by his bodyguards. He was confronted on Monday by several complainants in the premises of the judicial policeaccording to information from France Télévisions.
An indictment in another case
As reported by franceinfo, in the affair of Magician and the Siamese, a film assistant accuses the actor. This woman, who was then 24 years old, denounced “his hands all over [s]we body” during filming in Doué-en-Anjou (Maine-et-Loire).
In another case, Gérard Depardieu, 75, was indicted in December 2020 for rape and sexual assault after a complaint from actress Charlotte Arnould. At the end of August 2018, she denounced two rapes at the actor’s Parisian home. The complaint from actress Hélène Darras, who accused the actor of having sexually assaulted her during a film shoot in 2007, was filed at the end of December for prescription. In December 2023, Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza also filed a complaint in Spain against the actor for rape, for acts dating back to 1995 in Paris.