Gérard Depardieu has become one of the great protagonists of international news. This Monday, April 29, the news broke that the French actor had been arrested this morning, at 8:00 a.m., and taken into police custody at a Paris police station so that the authorities could question him over two new alleged accusations of sexual assault. , according to several local media.
In this way, the 75-year-old interpreter, who was already accused some time ago of sexual assault and rape in another case, has returned to the center of the media spotlight after two women have denounced him for sexual assault.
The alleged events occurred during two different filmings. The first of them took place in 2014 during the filming of the short film The Magician and the Siamese, by Jean-Pierre Mocky. According to the BFMTV media, the victim claims that Depardieu touched her ass and made obscene comments to her, before and during the filming of the audiovisual project.
The other reported case occurred on the set of Les volets verts, by Jean Becker, in 2021. According to the victim, a film decorator, while the actor was sitting in a hallway, grabbed her with his legs and He pinned her between his thighs.
The French interpreter has denied the facts before the authorities, just as he did last October when he published a letter in Le Figaro in which he assured that he had "never ever" abused a woman. After his statement, French police officers decided to place Gérard Depardieu under police arrest and, according to first information, police custody is scheduled for 24 hours, which can be extended up to 72 hours in the event of a serious violation, according to Lintern@. ute.
This new scandal involving the 75-year-old interpreter comes after last December the Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza accused the actor of sexual assault during an interview in 1995. To date, Gérard Depardieu has been accused by thirteen women of violence. sexual during the filming of eleven films, released between 2004 and 2022, according to the French newspaper Mediapart.
