French actor Gerard Depardieu has been summoned to face trial in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault in opposition to actress Charlotte Arnould.
“I really feel relieved,” Ms Arnould wrote on Instagram after receiving the decide’s indictment order.
“The order restores a type of judicial reality. I believe I am having bother realising how large that is.”
Charlotte Arnould. Pic: Reuters
Ms Arnould’s lawyer, Carine Durrieu-Diebolt, advised French outlet Franceinfo she was “extraordinarily happy” and mentioned the choice was a “second of judicial reality on this case”.
In 2018, prosecutors in Paris opened a preliminary investigation after Ms Arnould accused Depardieu of raping her at his house. He has denied wrongdoing.
“The acts of rape and sexual assault have been acknowledged,” Ms Arnould mentioned. “Now, we await the following steps.”
Final yr, prosecutors submitted a request for the case to proceed to trial.
Earlier this yr, Depardieu was convicted of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set and acquired an 18-month suspended jail sentence.
The 76-year-old was convicted of groping a 34-year-old assistant and a 54-year-old girl accountable for adorning the set in the course of the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Inexperienced Shutters) in 2021.
The court docket ordered his title to be listed within the nationwide intercourse offender database.
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Depardieu, some of the distinguished figures in French cinema for many years, advised the court docket his profession contains greater than 250 movies.
In 1991, he was nominated for an Oscar for his efficiency because the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac.
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In recent times, Depardieu has been accused of misconduct, both publicly or in formal complaints, by greater than 20 ladies.
To this point, solely the sexual assault case has proceeded to court docket, with different circumstances dropped over an absence of proof or an expired statute of limitations.
