2023-10-02 15:57:12
Gérard Depardieu during the El Gouna film festival, Egypt, October 24, 2020. AMMAR ABD RABBO / AFP
In the ” context “ accusations of rape and sexual assault once morest him, Gérard Depardieu “do not accept [plus] no project »announced his agent, Bertrand de Labbey, Monday October 2. The actor was to lend his voice to The Most Precious of Goodswhich tells the story of a couple of Polish lumberjacks who, during the Second World War, rescue a baby who fell from a train taking deportees to the Auschwitz camp.
At first and “by mutual agreement, Gérard Depardieu and Michel Hazanavicius have decided to renounce [sa] participation for [le] next movie » from the director, he added, confirming information from the daily The Parisian.
The actor has been indicted since 2020 for “rape” and “sexual assault” on actress Charlotte Arnould, who denounced two rapes at the star’s Parisian home at the end of August 2018. In the summer of 2020, she obtained that the investigation, first closed by the Paris prosecutor’s office in June 2019, be entrusted to an investigating judge.
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Actor Gérard Depardieu debunked these accusations once morest him on Sunday October 1. In an open letter published by Le Figarohe denounces a “lynching” orchestrated by the “media court” and ensuring to be “neither rapist nor predator”. “Never, ever, have I abused a woman”he writes. “I can no longer consent to what I hear, what I have read regarding myself for several months. I thought I didn’t care, but no, actually no. All this gets to me. Worse still, turns me off ».
In April, Médiapart revealed the testimonies of thirteen women accusing Gérard Depardieu of sexual violence. The Paris prosecutor’s office indicated at the time of these revelations that it had not “received no new complaints to date”. The prosecution also specified that the investigation opened in July 2020 following the actress’ complaint was continuing.
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