The accusation “will be added to the investigation already opened for the rape of another artist,” as explained by the prosecutor’s office.
They denounced the actor Gerard Depardieu by sexual assault. The complaint was made by the actress Hélène Darras who declared that she had been attacked by the interpreter in 2007, during the filming of the film Disk. This accusation “will be added to the investigation already opened for the rape of another artist”, as indicated this Wednesday by the French prosecutor’s office.
Darras filed the complaint on September, 10th for a sexual assault during a filming in 2007 and, although in principle the facts are prescribed, the Public ministry He stated that they will study the case “to see what route to take”.
Darras’ complaint will be on the small screen this Thursday
In an episode scheduled for this Thursday, of the research program “Complément d’enquête” of public television France 2 Regarding the numerous accusations against the actor, Darras accuses Depardieu of having groped her When I had 26 years and acted as an extra in the film “Disk”by Fabien Onteniente.
The actress said that during filming, Depardieu he put his hand “on the hips and on the buttocks”, and that he would then have “invited her to his dressing room.” She immediately reported “nothing changed” even though he told him “No”and continued groping her.
Depardieu and the record of complaints he has faced for three years
Before this complaint, the court had already charged the actor in December 2020 for violations and sexual assaults to the actress Charlotte Arnoldwho already denounced Depardieu in August 2018 for two rapes at the actor’s Paris home.
Since then, a dozen women They accused him in the press of sexual violence.
At the beginning of October, Depardieu rejected the accusations and denounced a “lynching” carried out by a “media court,” in his words. “I have never ever abused a woman”he added in an open letter published in the newspaper The Figaroin which he assures that it is not “neither a rapist nor a predator”.
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