The expected judgment this Tuesday, the day of the opening of the Cannes Festival – Liberation
Tuesday May 13 around 10 am, on the morning of the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, The cinema planet will know if it turns exactly like yesteryear, or a little differently. In the morning, Gérard Depardieu, a long sacred monster of the cinema, will be able to be found guilty of the facts which are accused on the set of Green shutters by Jean Becker: having sexually assaulted two women, one, Amélie K., decorator, the second, E., assistant to the realization.
On March 27, after a four -day trial and where the court largely granted the defense lawyer, Maître Jérémie Assoustime to expose and re -expose his arguments, the prosecutor required An eighteen month suspended sentencea fine of 20,000 euros, compensation for civil parties, an obligation of psychological care, a sentence of ineligibility of two years, and registration in the file of the actors of the actor.
The two lawyers of the victims, Maître Claude Vincent and Maître Carine Durrieu Diebolt also requested 10,000 euros each for their customers, as « Secondary victimization » induced by the procedure. A relatively recent legal notion which takes into account the suffering generated by the legal proceedings itself sometimes greater than the deed denounced. If the request is granted, it would be a way of considering defense violence in their place, who did not fail for the duration of the trial to crush the word of the complainants, treating them to « Venal » and « Landers ». Complainants, however Impassive and precise, not being dismantled.
During this trial, other women testified at charges and discharges. To discharge, of course, Fanny Ardant, who, in a feverish voice, had come « Expand the debate », « Explain why Gérard Depardieu is such a big actor » and help his friend that she currently runs on a film she shoots in Portugal. The actress had stayed in the afternoon on the bench with the family and friends of the actor, and we wondered, observing her, which she learned from the testimonies of the three very emotional women who had succeeded her at the helm, and who told how they had been sexually assaulted by the actor on other shoots.
Because there is an inexpensive particularity that this trial made obvious, and that the press as the lawyers of the civil parties noted: the strategy of the supposed aggressor who does not choose his prey from his equal, but target of the beginning of a precarious beginner workers. « He attacks those who are not going to denounce him, Synthesize Catherine Le Magueresse, representing the European association against violence against women at work. Those who are not going to question his impunity. ”
Gérard Depardieu, he had a particular defense: rather than refuting his gestures, He sometimes said he had not been committed. Or not to have acted « Of his own will », « not seeing himself palpate » And calling into question the very perimeter of sexual violence. And in an admission of disturbing sincerity and undeniable truth: « I’m not just this man who is touching. »
