Christian Saint-Palais announced this Monday, April 29 at the end of the afternoon that the custody of Gérard Depardieu, questioned regarding accusations of sexual assault brought by two women, was “over”.
Placed in police custody this Monday, April 29 in the morning, Gérard Depardieu “is no longer held in the police station”, announced his lawyer Christian Saint-Palais, indicating that “police custody is over”.
“The day is over, I will not give any further details. It is over for today’s hearings,” he simply declared to the press.
Since Monday morning at 8 a.m., the 75-year-old actor was questioned in a Parisian police station to respond to sexual assaults committed by two women.
The two complainants accuse Gérard Depardieu of touching suffered on two sets: in 2014 on the set of Magician and the Siamese by Jean-Pierre Mocky and in 2021 on the set of Green shutters by Jean Becker. Gérard Depardieu disputes the facts of which he is accused.
Several complaints
Already indicted for rape and sexual assault on Charlotte Arnould, the monster of French cinema has been the target of new complaints since the broadcast of an issue of Further investigation on France 2.
A decorator, who worked on the team of the film “Les Volets Verts” directed by Jean Becker, accuses him of having sexually assaulted her in 2021. According to her account, while he was sitting in a corridor, he grabbed the plaintiff with her legs and pinned her between her thighs. He touched her waist, breasts and buttocks and said the following words to her, according to her: “I’m going to stick my big umbrella in your pussy.”
The other complaint is brought by a former filming assistant who accuses Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault in 2014. According to her testimony, he touched her buttocks and made obscene remarks to her before and during filming.
The actress Hélène Darras had also filed a complaint against him for sexual assault during filming in 2007, but it was closed by the Paris prosecutor’s office for prescription.
