PARIS— The complainants’ attorneys called French star Gérard Depardieu a sex-related killer and a “misogynist” Thursday in their last appeal at a Paris test over allegations that he sexually attacked 2 females that were servicing a movie with him.
The star, 76, is implicated of having actually searched a 54-year-old collection cabinet and a 34-year-old aide throughout recording of the flick “Les Volets Verts” (” The Environment-friendly Shutters”) in 2021. He has actually refuted the allegations.
He confronts 5 years behind bars and a penalty of 75,000 euros ($ 81,000) if founded guilty. The judgment is anticipated at a later day.
The collection cabinet’s attorney, Carine Durrieu Diebolt, called Depardieu a sex-related killer that devoted transgression for years in the direction of “dwarfs” in the movie theater globe.
: Possibly you assume he’s a wonderful star and you like his movies,” she stated. “Depardieu is additionally a sex-related killer.”
His standing as a world-renowned star made him both an imaginative and a financial power in the movie sector, on the other hand with the complainants that ran the risk of being blacklisted if they speak out, Durrieu Diebolt stated, knocking what she called a “system of immunity.”
” M. Depardieu, when he’s touching females’s bodies, he’s exercising his power over them,” she stated.
On Tuesday, Depardieu recognized that he had actually made use of off-color and sexualized language with the established cabinet that implicated him of sexual offense. He stated he ordered her hips throughout a disagreement, yet refuted that his actions was sex-related.
The attorney for the various other complainant, Claude Vincent, began her appeal with a minutes-long listing of salacious words and various other off-color expressions seldom listened to in a court, stating: “That’s just how Gerard Depardieu acts on a movie collection, that the environment he’s enforcing around him.”
” No, you can not divide the guy from the musician,” she stated. “He is Gérard Depardieu, a misogynist amidst misogynists.”
The complainant, a movie aide, stated Depardieu searched her butts and her busts throughout 3 different cases on the movie collection.
Depardieu has actually declined the allegations given that the start of the test Monday, stating he’s “not like that.”
The star is being attempted by a panel of 3 courts, not a court, which is typical for such instances. The courts do not release their judgment immediately yet usually calculated for weeks or months.
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