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Paris — French constabulary connected Monday detained surface character Gerard Depardieu for questioning aft 2 women accused him of intersexual assault, a root adjacent to nan lawsuit said. The 75-year-old actor, who has made much than 200 films and tv series, was charged pinch rape successful 2020 and was forced to put his profession connected clasp past autumn arsenic allegations of intersexual harassment and assault mounted against him. He denies immoderate wrongdoing.
Police were to mobility Depardieu complete allegations from 2 women that he assaulted them connected movie sets, 1 successful 2021 and nan different successful 2014, a constabulary root said, confirming a study by nan BFMTV tv channel.
The actor's lawyers, Christian Saint-Palais and Beatrice Geissmann Achille, did not instantly reply to a petition from AFP for comment.
Actor Gerard Depardieu waves arsenic he arrives during a reddish carpet arena for nan movie "Novecento- Atto Primo," astatine nan 74th Venice Film Festival successful Venice, Italy, Sept. 5, 2017.
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The first female accuses him of having assaulted her erstwhile she was a personnel of nan unit connected nan 2022 characteristic movie "The Green Shutters".
The group designer, who revenge a general title successful February, told investigative website Mediapart that Depardieu grabbed her arsenic she near nan group successful a backstage edifice successful Paris.
She alleged he groped her "waist and stomach, moving up to (her) breasts" and made obscene comments earlier his bodyguards removed him.
The woman's lawyer, Carine Durrieu-Diebolt, declined to supply AFP pinch further details.
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The 2nd female has alleged Depardieu groped her "all over" and made "inappropriate" remarks while she was an adjunct connected nan group of 2015 movie "Le magician et le Siamois" ("The Magician and nan Siamese"), she told location newspaper Le Courrier de l'Ouest.
Depardieu already faces a rape charge, arsenic good arsenic claims of battle from much than a twelve women — each of which he has powerfully denied.
"Never ever person I abused a woman," Depardieu wrote successful Le Figaro newspaper successful October.
Police successful 2020 charged Depardieu pinch rape and intersexual battle aft character Charlotte Arnould alleged he raped her successful 2018 erstwhile she was 22 and anorexic.
Another intersexual battle title revenge past twelvemonth by character Helene Darras, who said Depardieu groped and propositioned her during a 2007 movie shoot, has been dropped for being past nan statute of limitations.
Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza said successful December she had revenge a criminal title successful her location state against Depardieu, alleging he raped her successful 1995 successful Paris.
Despite nan events having passed nan statute of limitations, she said she decided to record her title successful nan dream that it would "help different people" to do nan same.
Depardieu had agelong made headlines for antics specified arsenic socialising pinch nan leaders of Russia and Belarus, obtaining a Russian passport to protestation against a planned taxation hike successful France, and delaying a 2011 formation aft urinating into a vessel that overflowed.
But statement complete whether to show his films intensified astatine nan extremity of past twelvemonth aft a tv study showed nan character many times making obscene comments successful nan beingness of a female expert during a 2018 travel to North Korea.
His wax sculpture was hurriedly removed from nan Musee Grevin waxwork depository successful Paris and Canada's Quebec region stripped him of its apical honour.
Actor Anouk Grinberg, a co-star to Depardieu connected "The Green Shutters", has described really she and others connected group were "treated to his salacious delirium from greeting to night".
"When movie producers prosecute Depardieu connected a film, they cognize they are hiring an aggressor," she told AFP.
Grinberg said producers of "The Green Shutters" had supposedly appointed personification to woody pinch harassment issues but that she did nothing.
French cinema has successful caller months been rocked by allegations that it has shrugged disconnected sexism and intersexual maltreatment for decades.
Depardieu's lawsuit has exposed a awesome divided successful French cinema and wider society, pinch immoderate defending his correct to "presumption of innocence" and others supporting his accusers.
President Emmanuel Macron sparked an outcry successful December erstwhile he defended nan "immense actor" arsenic guiltless until proven blameworthy and insinuated he was nan unfortunate of a "manhunt".
Macron later added that he should person emphasised nan value of women speaking up.
Actor Judith Godreche, 52, has go a starring sound successful France's #MeToo activity aft accusing 2 movie board of abusing her arsenic an underage teenager.
Speaking successful nan precocious location of parliament successful February, she urged nan authorities to betterment nan French cinema manufacture to protect young actresses from intersexual violence.
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