The sentence of French director Christophe Ruggia will be known on February 3, 2025

The cry froze the courtroom in Paris. “But shut up!” », yelled Adèle Haenel on Tuesday at French director Christophe Ruggia, against whom five years in prison including two years were required, for sexual assault on the actress when she was a teenager.

The prosecutor requested that the firm part of this sentence be placed directly under an electronic bracelet, which means that Christophe Ruggia, 59 years old, would not go to prison.

She also required registration in the register of perpetrators of sexual offenses, a ban on contact with the victim and an obligation to compensate her.

The court will deliver its judgment on February 3, 2025.

Adèle Haenel, 35, spoke again on Tuesday, on the second day of the trial, about the filming of the film THE devils in 2001. A particularly difficult shoot in the opinion of adult professionals, who would later say they were uncomfortable with the behavior moved of the director towards the French actress, then aged 12.

It’s normality that shifts by degreetried to explain Adèle Haenel, in a black suit. And the only protection I had from this shame, from the violence he made me suffer, the only protection was the words he gave me.

Et I find myself doing things in this new normalcontinued the actress. As return every Saturday afternoon for two years at the director’s house (aged 36 to 39 at the time).

This is where the attacks took place, on the sofa where he always found a pretext to press against her, put his hand under her t-shirt or in her pants, kissing her neck, breathing hard.

Who was there, around this child, to tell her: “It’s not your fault. It’s manipulation. It’s violence?”almost implored Adèle Haenel.

Everyone asks me to cry over the fate of Mr. Ruggia. But who cared about the child? Attacking children like that doesn’t happen. It has consequences. No one helped this child.

This hearing must recall the forbidden, who was the adult, who was the childunderlined prosecutor Camille Poch during her requisitions, saying she did not no doubt on the reality of the attacks, described in a manner constant by Adèle Haenel and which she spoke to those around her from 2006.

Adèle Haenel said she felt responsible for this filthSO we must put the guilt back in the right place, tell Adèle Haenel that she is not the guilty oneaffirmed the magistrate.

The time has passedbut did not erase the after-effects from which Adèle Haenel suffered, still visible, she noted. Several times during the hearing, the actress was seized with nervous spasms at the mention of the attacks.

The magistrate thus swept away the improbable defense by Christophe Ruggia who spoke of a vengeancebecause he would not have wanted to make a second film with her.

Earlier at the hearing, the actress who had until then contained her rage, content since the start of the trial to fix the director with a dark look that he avoided, let it explode.

But shut up!yelled the actress, standing up, furious, her hands banging flat on the table in front of her.

The director who describes the attacks as pure lie had just said again at the bar conscience of the complexity of the filming of devilsexplained that he had tried to protect Adèle Haenel who could have been mocked in college because of the sex scenes.

I suggested she take an assumed name…he advanced, before being interrupted by the cry of Adèle Haenel.

The actress then hastily left the room, as an echo of her departure from the César ceremony (the most prestigious prizes in French cinema) in 2020 to denounce the coronation of Franco-Polish Roman Polanski, accused of sexual assault and rapes by several women. A gesture that made her a symbol for feminists.

Half an hour later, she returned and sat down again, away from the director, this time without looking at him.