A woman filed a complaint in January against actor Gérard Depardieu for sexual assault during filming in Doué-en-Anjou (Maine-et-Loire) in March 2014, according to the document seen by AFP on Thursday and published by The Western Mail.
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The complaint was filed on January 9, 2024 at a Paris police station for “sexual assault on a vulnerable person by a person who abuses the authority of his position.”
According to the document, the facts presented date back to March 2014.
According to Le Courrier de l'Ouest, the facts denounced by this woman, a former assistant aged 24 at the time, “occurred during the filming of the film 'The Wizard and the Siamese', directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky.
When questioned by the regional newspaper, the young woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, particularly denounced “putting her paws on everything.” [son] body” and the actor’s “indecent words” on set.
Gérard Depardieu, 75, was charged with rape and sexual assault in December 2020 after actress Charlotte Arnould filed a complaint denouncing two rapes at the actor's Paris home in late August 2018.
The lawsuit filed by actress Hélène Darras, who accused Gérard Depardieu of sexually abusing her during the filming of a film in 2007, was dropped at the end of December “due to the statute of limitations.”
In December 2023, Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza also filed a complaint in Spain against the actor for rape, the crimes of which date back to 1995 in Paris.