Gérard Depardieu affair and additional investigation: justice takes a radical decision

“If he ever gallops, she cums. That’s good, my girl, keep going! You see, she’s scratching there!“. This is one of many extremely shocking sexual remarks filmed during Gérard Depardieu’s trip to North Korea in 2018 with Yann Moix, broadcast by Further investigation December 7, 2023 on France 2.

Further investigation : a first authentication of images in 2023

This sentence obviously particularly offended public opinion, since it was addressed, according to the report, to “a girl aged around ten“which was on the back of a horse. This is what the terms allow us to understand”my daughter“, pronounced by the actor. But the latter contests the editing of the images and accuses the magazine of having wanted to deceive the viewers. He also assures, that the scene which caused controversy was a “fiction“. The nature of the filming was, however, a documentary. A few days after the broadcast of the investigation – after doubts expressed by Emmanuel Macron during a very controversial speech live in C to you on France 5 – France Télévisions had the sequence in question authenticated by a bailiff and confirmed that the images were formal and left no doubt about the fact that Gérard Depardieu was talking about a child.

Gérard Depardieu tried at the end of October in another case

Despite this authentication of the images, according to Teleramathe Paris Court of Appeal ordered the production company to Further investigation this Friday, October 18, an expertise to determine whether the actor is telling the truth or not. Last May, at first instance, the court ordered the production company Hiraki to hand over the images directly to the actor. A decision denounced by Reporters Without Borders and which the production company Hiraki had appealed. Hiraki must therefore send to the courts all of the images filmed during the sequence which is causing debate. We note that on October 28, Gérard Depardieu will be tried by the Paris criminal court for sexual assaults committed on two women during the filming of Green shutters in 2021. Another trial was also required, for rape and sexual assault against the actress Charlotte Arnould.