Depardieu is accused of using ‘violence, coercion, surprise or threat’ in the alleged assaults, which prosecutors said took place on the set of Les Volets verts
French actor Gérard Depardieu , who is facing trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021, won’t appear before a criminal court in Paris on Monday due to health reasons, his lawyer said.
Assous said he will ask the court for a postponement of the trial because his client “wishes to come, wants to express himself.” According to Paris prosecutors, the woman told investigators that Depardieu had earlier made sexual remarks and then one day, as she walked past him, he “grabbed her, pulled her toward him, blocked her with his legs, and groped her waist, hips and chest, accompanying his gestures with obscene remarks.”
According to prosecutors, the woman said it had taken her a while to file a complaint, but she decided to do so after hearing on television that there had never been an incident during the shoot. Late last year, 56 French performers, writers and producers published an essay defending the film star, saying that when “Gérard Depardieu is targeted this way, it is the art that is being attacked.”
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