Actress Charlotte Arnould has accused the French star of twice assaulting her at his Paris dwelling in 2018.
The Paris Prosecutor’s Workplace has requested that actor Gérard Depardieu stand trial in relation to rape allegations towards him made by actress Charlotte Arnould, the French media reported on Thursday.
Arnould introduced the costs in 2020, alleging Depardieu twice raped and assaulted her at his Paris dwelling in August 2018. Depardieu, who denies the allegations, misplaced his enchantment for the courtroom to drop the case.
Chatting with French channel BFMTV, Arnould’s lawyer, Carine Durrieu-Diebolt known as the request a “big step ahead in direction of a trial, noting that Arnould “is now impatiently awaiting the tip of the investigation.”
Arnould alleges that Depardieu, a pal of her father’s, raped her on two separate events, in the summertime of 2018, when she had visited his Parisian dwelling to ask for recommendation. Arnould was 22 years previous on the time whereas Depardieu was 69. After varied authorized wrangling, together with the actor’s failed try to get the case dismissed, a Parisian investigating decide indicted Depardieu for rape and sexual assault, releasing him with out judicial supervision. A decide has but to determine on the recent trial request.
In April, the prosecutor’s workplace confirmed that the Inexperienced Card and Cyrano de Bergerac actor will stand trial in one other sexual assault case, introduced by two girls who declare he assaulted them on set of French movie The Inexperienced Shutters in 2021. That trial is anticipated to start in October.
Depardieu denies all wrongdoing in these and the various different sexual assault accusations introduced towards him in recent times. In an open letter revealed within the conservative Le Figaro newspaper final fall, he instructed his acts had been misinterpreted.
