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Placed in police custody this morning following the filing of two complaints for sexual assault during filming, the interpreter of Cyrano de Bergerac was released this Monday at the end of the day.
This Monday morning, actor Gérard Depardieu was summoned by investigators before being placed in police custody in the premises of the 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police for sexual assault. The actor was questioned after two women accused him of touching during two separate shoots: the first in 2014, during the production of “Magician and the Siamese”, by Jean-Pierre Mocky, and the second in 2021, during the filming of “Green Shutters», by Jean Becker.
According to one of his lawyers, Gérard Depardieu’s police custody was lifted this Monday, April 29 at the end of the day.
Two complaints on two separate shoots
The first complaint came from an assistant who was 24 years old at the time of the facts, in 2014. According to her version of the facts, the actor allegedly asked her “his paws all over [son] body” before throwing “indecent words», she reports to the regional daily The Western Mail . A behavior that would last him for a long time.haunted“. She filed a complaint last January for “sexual assault on a vulnerable person by someone abusing the authority of their position”. During this filming, “from morning to evening, we had the right to his salaceries”the actress testified Anouk Grinbergin an interview with AFP. “When film producers hire Depardieu on a film, they know they are hiring an aggressor”she had accused.
The second complaint, which was filed last February for “sexual assault”, “sexual harassment” and “sexist outrages”, is that of a 53-year-old film decorator. According to him, the 75-year-old actor grabbed her in a corridor, pinned her between her legs and told her “I’m going to stick my big umbrella in your pussy.” According to the account given to Mediapartthe actor would have “caught brutally” and he would have “kneaded the waist, the stomach, going up to her breasts”. The film crew, learning the facts, would have asked the interpreter of Cyrano de Bergerac to apologize, which he would have done. An investigation was subsequently opened, the Paris prosecutor’s office indicated last March, confirming information from Mediapart. When asked, the decorator’s lawyer, Me Carine Durrieu-Diebolt, did not wish to comment on the actor’s summons.
“In the media court, to the lynching that has been reserved for me, I have only my word to oppose”
The French cinema giant was indicted in December 2020 for “rape” and “sexual assault” after a complaint from actress Charlotte Arnould, who denounced two rapes at the actor’s Parisian home at the end of August 2018. The complaint of 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”. Facts dating back to 1995, in Paris.
Gérard Depardieu disputes the facts. In an open letter published last October in Le Figaro Gérard Depardieu declared that he meant “his truth” and assured that he did not “never ever” abused a woman. “In the media court, to the lynching that has been reserved for me, I have only my word to oppose“, he wrote.