“His hands all over my body”, “his indecent words”. A young woman reported from Courrier de l’Ouest the actions of Gérard Depardieu on the film set. She filed a complaint in January against the actor for sexual assault during filming in Doué-en-Anjou (Maine-et-Loire) in March 2014, according to the complaint that AFP was able to consult on Thursday, revealed by the regional newspaper.
The complaint was filed on January 9, 2024 in a Paris police station for “sexual assault on a vulnerable person by a person abusing the authority of their position”. The facts denounced date back to March 2014, according to the document. According to Le Courrier de l’Ouest, the facts denounced by this woman, a former assistant then aged 24, allegedly took place “during the filming of the film The Magician and the Siamesedirected by Jean-Pierre Mocky.
“Haunted”
Questioned by the regional newspaper, the young woman said she was “haunted” by the actor’s behavior. She requested anonymity from the Western media: “I do not want to receive messages from people who would take great pleasure in being Depardieu’s lawyer or careerists of all kinds on social networks. »
Gérard Depardieu, 75, was indicted in December 2020 for rape and sexual assault after a complaint from the actress, Charlotte Arnould, who denounced two rapes at the actor’s Parisian home at the end of August 2018. The complaint by actress Hélène Darras, who accused Gérard Depardieu 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.