Called to appear this Monday, October 28 for sexual assault before the Paris criminal court, actor Gérard Depardieu will not be present at the hearing, due to “his state of health”, indicated this Monday morning his lawyer Jérémie Assous, on franceinfo .
“His doctors forbid him from appearing at the hearing”
Gérard Depardieu will not be present at the hearing of his trial for sexual assault which opens this Monday, October 28, announced his lawyer, on franceinfo. “Gérard Depardieu is extremely affected, but unfortunately his doctors forbid him from appearing at the hearing,” said Jérémie Assous.
“He will request a postponement to a later date so that he can be present. Gérard Depardieu hears, wishes to express himself »assures his lawyer.
According to him, “the trial should be postponed and Gérard Depardieu should be present at the next hearing”, added the magistrate.
“False accusations”
Jérémie Assous also denounced “false accusations” and one “investigation carried out solely in the direction of the accusation”.
Two women accuse the actor of facts that allegedly took place on the set of the film The green shutters Jean Becker.
One of the two women, a film decorator, filed a complaint in February 2024 against the actor – indicted for rape in another case – for sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexist outrages during the filming of this film, resulting in the opening of an investigation.
According to the 55-year-old complainant, the alleged acts took place in September 2021, in a private mansion in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. In his story to the investigative site Mediapartthe latter explained that Gérard Depardieu would have “caught with brutality” as she left the set.
Gérard Depardieu would then have it “stuck by closing her legs on (her) like a crab”then he would have “knead the waist, the stomach, going up to (her) breasts”she assured. He also allegedly held “obscene remarks” such as: “Come touch my big parasol, I’m going to shove it in your pussy.”
The actor will also be judged for sexual violence denounced in a complaint by another woman, an assistant director on the same film.
During this filming, “from morning to evening, we had the right to his salaceries”had testified the actress Anouk Grinberg, in an interview with l’AFP. “When film producers hire Depardieu on a film, they know they are hiring an aggressor,” she had accused.
