The French actor Gérard Depardieu went this Monday to a Paris police station where he had been summoned to be interrogated under arrest for complaints from two women who claim to have suffered sexual assault by the French actor on two different shoots, one in 2014 and another in 2021. The information was revealed by the BRFMTV channel, which stated that the two women claim to have suffered touching, something that Depardieu denies.
The first of these shoots was The magician and the Siamoisby director Jean-Pierre Mocky, and the second by Les Volets vertsby Jean Becker. In this last case, the complainant is a 53-year-old film decorator who, according to her testimony, one day the actor blocked her with his legs when she was sitting in a hallway, began to grope her and made an openly content comment. sexual.
In fact, this is the third procedure that the French Justice has opened against Depardieu (75 years old) for sexual assaults. The other two are an accusation of sexual assault and rape of actress Charlotte Arnould, admitted in 2020; and the investigation into a 2014 sexual assault complaint filed by a former assistant, who was 24 years old at the time.
In addition, the 75-year-old actor has been publicly accused by fifteen women for his inappropriate sexual behavior. Two of the last women to do so were the French actress Hélène Darras for events in 2008 and the Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza for alleged rape in 1995.
Telephone 016 assists victims of sexist violence in Spain, their families and those around them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but the call must be deleted from the device. You can also contact via email [email protected] and by WhatsApp at the number 600 000 016. Minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the National Police telephone numbers (091) and the Civil Guard (062). And if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
