Rape and sexual violence. These are the charges that hang on Gérard Depardieu’s head, the famous French actor who fell into the eye of the storm in August 2018, when an actress remained anonymous, who The Parisian at the time defined as “a young comedian and dancer in his twenties,” he denounced him for being raped twice by Depardieu in his Paris apartment. The complaint was a few days after the alleged violence which, according to the actress, would have taken place on 7 and 13 August three years ago.
Second Bfm TV the two would have met when Depardieu held a master-class in his school, a circumstance that would have led them to meet “for informal repetitions for a play”, as he wrote The Parisian.
🔴 Accused of rape, Gérard Depardieu indicted https://t.co/DGnrMNFtHQ pic.twitter.com/2mYRJuerPz
– The Parisian (@le_Parisien) February 23, 2021
The actress filed a complaint for the first time with details of the alleged rape in theaugust 2018 in the city of Aix-en-Provence: taken over by investigators in Paris, the investigation was, however, closed in 2019 due to lack of evidence. The authorities re-evaluated and reopened the case in the summer of 2020 after a year, leading the authorities to formally denounce Depardieu. To give the news today was France Media Agency, who cited judicial sources explaining that the indictment dates back to two months ago.
The actor’s lawyer, Hervè Temime, always contacted by France Press, he “deplored” the leak and said that his client, now 72, “Totally disputes the facts of which he is accused”. According to a well-informed source, Depardieu is, in fact, a friend of the woman’s family, with whom he had no professional relationship. Since the beginning of the investigation, the actor has always pleaded innocent.
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