One of the complaints against Gérard Depardieu, filed by Hélène Darras for sexual assault, was closed at the end of December for limitation, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday, confirming information from RTL. The actress accused the actor of having sexually assaulted her during a film shoot in 2007. Hélène Darras could not immediately be reached, like the 75-year-old actor’s lawyers.
“It took me a year to go from testimony to complaint”
The complaint dates from September 10. The actress had already testified in court and in Mediapart. She thus “wanted to respond to the defense which minimizes our denunciations by saying that these are “only” testimonies”, she explained to AFP at the beginning of December, alluding to the multiple accusations published in the press against Gérard Depardieu.
“It took me a year to move from testimony to complaint,” she also confided. “Walking through the door of the police station, telling a police officer that your private parts were touched, it’s not easy, it takes time to think about it,” she added.
The investigative magazine “Complément d’investigation” (France 2) revealed the complaint of Hélène Darras, who gave her story there. During filming, Gérard Depardieu “passes his hand on my hips, on my buttocks” then “says to me bluntly: “Do you want to come up to my dressing room?” “. The actress tells him “no” but “it doesn’t change anything”, she says: “Between takes, he will continue to grope me. »
The images from the “Additional investigation” analyzed
In a separate case, Gérard Depardieu was indicted in Paris on December 16, 2020 for rape and sexual assault after a complaint from another actress, Charlotte Arnould, who denounced two rapes in August 2018 at the actor’s Parisian home .
Charlotte Arnould’s lawyer, Me Carine Durrieu-Diebolt, recently wrote to the Paris prosecutor’s office to ask them to analyze the report from “Complément d’investigation” according to the public prosecutor, confirming the information from BFMTV. The lawyer believes that the remarks made by Gérard Depardieu in front of the camera are likely to be criminal, which the prosecution is currently determining.
In the viewfinder: a video shot in 2018 during a trip with writer Yann Moix to North Korea, where we see Gérard Depardieu making gestures or throat noises mimicking the sexual act and making comments that shocked.
In a stud farm, the French cinema giant states in particular that “women love to ride horses (because) their clits rub against the saddle […], they enjoy enormously.” And to continue: “They’re big sluts. »