Gerard Depardieu Found Guilty of Sexual Assault Against 2 Women

French actor Gerard Depardio Sexual assault was convicted of two women in one of the most prominent #Metoo cases in Europe.

The 76 -year -old star appeared in more than 200 films, including Cyrano de Bergerac and Jean de FloriteAnd he won multiple prizes for more than five decades in the cinema.

On Tuesday, May 13, the Paris court gave the actor to a 18 -month prison sentence for touching two different women while filming the 2021 movie Les Volets Verts. Both women were part of the movie crew behind the scenes and said they were afraid of speaking because of the feeling of intimidation by the star.

“I felt vital,” one of them said, a specific designer named Amili K. “He felt terrified, it seemed like a crazy man.” “I touched everything, including my breasts. I felt terrified, was laughing.”

Depaardieu strongly denied these allegations and initially obtained support from high -level figures in the film industry, along with the French president Emmanuel MacronWho previously described the star as “France’s pride.” However, the court found that his narration of accidents is inconsistent.

Karen DiletAmelie K lawyer claimed that DePardieu targets women who were not high -level. She said: “He is strong with the weak and the weak with the powerful.”

During the interrogation, DePardieu admitted that he first denied touching the victim at all before saying he was holding the hips to avoid falling, and then claimed that he was trying to attract her attention. He also said he did not know sexual assault.

Dibolt later said Heaven News Depardieu was finally responsible for the behavior with which he was tolerated because of his situation and fame. “These women have been at risk,” she said. “This relates to a set of crimes he committed over many years that the world of cinema forgived because it was Gerard Depardio. Since the financial benefits he brought to the industry are very large. He made some excellent films, but all men are still equal before the law. No one warns of the client, so that his words were a terrible surprise for them.

The lawyer added that about 20 other women had made allegations about the actor. He will be tried again later this year for raping the actress Charlotte Arnold. Depardieu, a girlfriend of her parents, was accused of raping her at his home in Paris.