He gripped her by his hips, but he did not touch it

This week, the trial of French, European and World Film Legends is taking place in Paris Gérardo Depardieu Due to sexual assaults on two associates while shooting a movie Green shuttle (Water Volts Verts2022). One of them, 54-year-old stage master with pseudonym Amélie kshe said on Tuesday that the actor had been cracking her with his feet, then touching her all over her body. In her presence, she is also constantly giving sexual comments and acting and speaking inappropriately.

In his defense on Tuesday, Depandie first said that he had been arguing with Amélie about her decisions about setting the scene, and then he grabbed her hips, but because he was tired and feared to fall. « Yes, I admit that I grabbed her hips to tell her a particularly nice thing, not to touch her, » the actor soon introduced a slightly different version of the event. “It was Friday, it was hot and moist. I have a weight of 150 pounds and I was in a bad mood, « he explained about the day in September 2021, because of the events in which he is now before the court.

Prior to that, Depardieu denied all the allegations and claimed that he had not touched the plaintiff at all. When her lawyer warned him that he is changing the story now, the actor only said, « If you say so. »

He added that Amélie had openly said that he was doing his job poorly, which allegedly shocked her. Everything that may have sounded rough was related to her work, Depandieu claimed.

During the testimony, he was repeatedly taken from the essence of the trial. So he spoke the hysteria of some women and that he did not like the direction into which society was developing. « I think my time has passed, » the 76-year-old was a bit resigned. He added that he seems to be the #Jazududa movement, whose most « capital » catch in France is, the rule of terror.

The current trial, at which, if he was actually sentenced, he could receive up to five prison and EUR 75,000 in fines, is just a top of similar allegations against Depardieu. However, it is the first to reach the trial. He is accused of various forms of sexual harassment more than a dozen women. The closest trial is the accusation of an actress Charlotte Arnouldthat in 2018, when she was 22, she was raped twice by Depandieu. An investigation into this case has been ongoing for some time, but the investigating judge has not yet announced when or whether the trial will begin.

Very interesting in all these accusations is that the actor played in 2014 in the movie Welcome to New Yorkin which he portrayed the influential Frenchman, the possible candidate for the president, who was arrested for the accusation of the rape of the maid at the hotel. The movie inspiration was a real scandal when Depandieu’s countryman, then president of the International Monetary Fund and possible candidate for the French president Dominique Strauss-Kahn In 2011, allegedly wanted to rape a maid at a luxury Sofitel Hotel in New York.